Why choose Design and Technology: Resistant Materials Technology?
This specification has been designed to encourage candidates to be able to design and make products with creativity and originality, using a range of materials and techniques. Candidates will be enthused and challenged by the range of practical activities possible. A working knowledge of woods, metals, plastics and composite materials will be required, but othermaterials may be used in addition. The use of new technologies CAD CAM.
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Aims and learning outcomes
• Actively engage in the processes of design and technology to develop as effective and independent learners
• Make decisions, consider sustainability and combine skills with knowledge and understanding in order to design and make quality products • Explore ways in which aesthetic, technical, economic, environmental, ethical and social dimensions interact to shape designing and making • Analyse existing products and produce practical solutions to needs, wants and opportunities, recognising their impact on quality of life • Develop decision-making skills through individual and collaborative working • Understand that designing and making reflect and influence cultures and societies, and that products have an impact on lifestyle • Develop skills of creativity and critical analysis through making links between the principles of good design, existing solutions and technological knowledge. |