Design project: Muffins
Summary of task
Students researched, investigated, designed, produced and evaluated a healthy muffin suitable to be sold in a local café catering to adolescents. They explored the properties of ingredients to design a product that was healthy. They considered packaging and the use of resources, taking into account sustainability. Students presented a visual image to demonstrate how the product met the criteria for success. They reflected on their ideas using a sensory analysis and written evaluation. The design development process was documented.
The focus of this task was to design and produce a product for the technologies context food specialisations.
Achievement standard
By the end of Year 8, students explain how social, ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of innovative and enterprising solutions to meet a range of present and future needs. They explain how the features of technologies influence design and production decisions. Students make choices between different types of networks for defined purposes.
Students explain a range of needs, opportunities or problems and define them in terms of functional requirements and constraints. They collect, authenticate and interpret data from a range of sources to assist in making informed judgements. Students generate and document in digital and non-digital form, design ideas for different audiences using appropriate technical terms, and graphical representation techniques including algorithms. They independently and safely plan, design, test, modify and create a range of digital solutions that meet intended purposes including user interfaces and the use of a programming language. They plan, document and effectively manage processes and resources to produce designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts. They develop criteria for success, including innovation and sustainability considerations, and use these to judge the suitability of their ideas, solutions and processes. Students use appropriate protocols when collaborating, and creating and communicating ideas, information and solutions face-to-face and online.
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Describes how people in design and technology occupations contribute to creating and modifying food products
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Highlights the key ideas of the design brief to be addressed -
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Identifies how the characteristics and properties of food influence design decisions for healthy eating -
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Develops relevant criteria for success to assess design ideas, processes and solutions
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Analyses how the characteristics and properties of food ingredients determine preparation techniques when designing solutions for healthy eating -
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Lists sustainability factors for consideration in the development of the designed solution -
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Analyses the nutritional properties of ingredients to determine the best choices for healthy eating
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Creates, tests and adapts design ideas and makes considered decisions based on evaluation of needs
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Documents a recipe using appropriate technical terms and technologies to safely produce an effective designed solution -
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Uses a range of materials, tools, equipment and techniques to produce the designed solution
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Illustrates environmentally friendly packaging for the muffins and describes how they will be transported to the cafe -
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Uses digital photography to display the finished product and how it could be served and sold -
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Evaluates the food product using sensory analysis
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Evaluates ideas, solutions and processes against the identified criteria for success
