Design & Technologies

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Food Equity and Social Justice

​​(Semester Elective)


Students investigate global and local food equity issues that places groups of people at risk of food inequity. Students will explore the impacts of industrialized food production, social, political, economic and environmental factors impacting on people's access to food. 

Students will examine the criterion that places groups at risk of food inequity, both locally and globally. Students will understand the implications of over and under nutrition on an individual's health and wellbeing through the lifecycle.

Students will make ethical decisions about technologies, considering legal, economic, environmental and social implications. Students will generate designed solutions for preferred food equity futures through technological and production processes to address authentic needs.

Students are introduced to food preparation and cookery techniques, safe work practices and food safety and hygiene.

Students will demonstrate evidence of their learning through several assessment types aligned with the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for Design and Technologies.

Food Equity and Social Justice is a food specialization course within the Design and Technologies Australian Curriculum.


Connections to Other Year 10 Courses: Introduction to Hospitality | Sustainable Food Futures | Religious Education | Business Courses

Senior Pathway Links: Hospitality Courses | Religion & Ethics | Health | Business Courses

Career Development Links: Nutrition | Health Industry | Trainer | Political Lobbying | Chef | Business Owner


​Sustainable Food Futures

(Semester Elective)​​


Students will investigate where food comes from and how to make informed healthier food choices.

Students will critically analyze many factors related to food system sustainability, including environmental impacts, ethical treatment of animals, consumerism, and industrialization of food systems.

Students will identify what food waste is on a local and global​ level and explore different ways to cook using food that might otherwise be wasted. They are introduced to food preparation and cookery techniques, safe work practices and food safety and hygiene. Students will develop designed solutions for preferred food sustainability futures through technological and production processes. Students will demonstrate evidence of their learning through several assessment types aligned with the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards for Design and Technologies.

Sustainable Food Futures is a food specialization course within the Design and Technologies Australian Curriculum.


Connections to Other Year 10 Courses: Introduction to Hospitality | Sustainable Food Futures | Religious Education | Business Courses

Senior Pathway Links: Hospitality Courses | Religion & Ethics | Health | Business Courses

Career Development Links: Nutrition | Health Industry | Trainer | Political Lobbying | Chef | Business Owner​​


​Design and Technologies: Industry Skills

(Semester Elective)


In Design and Technologies: Industry Skills, students will engage in the design process to generate, develop and evaluate ideas and design, produce and evaluate products, services and environments in home, community and global settings. Students are employed in making ethical decisions about technologies, considering legal, economic, environmental and social implications. They realize solutions by working technologically, using technologies processes and production involving their hands, tools, equipment and digital technologies, using natural and fabricated materials.

Study in Design Technologies: Industry Skills will engage students in learning critical skills that will assist them with undertaking a trade pathway. They will learn to read working drawings and create practical projects.


Connections to Other Year 10 Courses: Practical Design | Graphics | Design

Senior Pathway Links: Industrial Graphics Skills | Engineering Skills | Design | Furnishing Skills | Building & Construction Skills

Career Development Links: A variety of trade-based occupations | Industrial Design | Architecture | Engineering


​Design and Te​chnologies: Graphics

(Semester Elective)


In Design and Technologies: Graphics, students will engage in the design process to generate, develop and evaluate products, services and environments in home, community and global settings. Students are employed in making ethical decisions about technologies, considering legal, economic, environmental and social implications. They realize solutions by working technologically, using technologies processes and production involving their hands, tools, equipment and digital technologies, using natural and fabricated materials.

Studying Graphics engages students in using a variety of industry standard programs, including Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Revit, to design and create projects in a range of contexts such as Industrial Design and Build Environment.


Connections to Other Year 10 Courses: Practical Design | Graphics | Design

Senior Pathway Links: Industrial Graphics Skills | Engineering Skills | Design | Visual Art | Furnishing Skills | Building & Construction Skills

Career Development Links: A variety of trade-based occupations | Industrial Design | Architecture | Engineering


Design and Technologies: Practical Design

(Semester Elective)​


In Design and Technologies: Practical Design, students will engage in the design process to generate, develop and evaluate products, services and environments in home, community and global settings. Students are employed in making ethical decisions about technologies, considering legal, economic, environmental and social implications. They realize solutions by working technologically, using technologies processes and production involving their hands, tools, equipment and digital technologies, using natural and fabricated materials.

Studying Practical Design will engage students in learning about design thinking and processes. This is a practical subject where students will learn how to use a variety of hand tools and woodworking machinery. The students will design a solution to a challenge that they will then manufacture.


Connections to Other Year 10 Courses: Industry Skills | Graphics | Design | Visual Art

Senior Pathway Links: Industrial Graphics Skills | Engineering | Design | Visual Art | Furnishing Skills | Building & Construction Skills

Career Development Links: A variety of trade-based occupations | Industrial Design | Architecture | Engineering​


​Design

(Semester Elective)​​


Technologies have been an integral part of society for as long as humans have had the desire to create solutions to improve their own and others' quality of life. Technologies have an impact on people and societies by transforming, restoring and sustaining the world in which we live.

Australia needs enterprising and innovative individuals with the ability to make discerning decisions concerning the development, use and impact of technologies. When developing technologies, these individuals need to be able to work independently and collaboratively to solve complex, open-ended problems.

The Design subject focuses on the application of design thinking to envisage creative products, services and environments in response to human needs, wants and opportunities. Designing is a complex and sophisticated form of problem-solving that uses divergent and convergent thinking strategies that can be practiced and improved. Designers are separated from the constraints of production processes to allow them to appreciate and exploit innovative ideas.


Connections to Other Year 10 Subjects: Visual Art | Graphics | Practical Design

Senior Pathway Links: Design | Visual Art | Engineering | Industrial Graphics

Career Development Links: Industrial Design | Architecture | Engineering