Solar Boats

Design Technologies

Technologies and Society

Explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (AC9TDE6K01)

Technologies Context: Engineering Principles and Systems

Explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system. (AC9TDE6K02)

Materials and Technologies Specialisations

Explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions. (AC9TDE6K05)

Investigating and Defining

Investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions. (AC9TDE6P01)

Evaluating

Negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions. (AC9TDE6P04)

Science Knowledge & Understanding

Physical Sciences

Investigate the transfer and transformation of energy in electrical circuits, including the role of circuit components, insulators and conductors. (AC9S6U03)

Science as a Human Endeavour

Nature and Development of Science

Examine why advances in Science are often the result of collaboration or build on the work of others. (AC9S6H01)

Use and Influence of Science

Investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions. (AC9S6H02)

Science Inquiry

Questioning and Predicting

Pose investigable questions to identify patterns and test relationships and make reasoned predictions. (AC9S6I01)

Planning and Conducting

Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place. (AC9S6I02)

Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate. (AC9S6I03)

Evaluating

Compare methods and findings with those of others, recognize possible sources of error, post questions for further investigation and select evidence to draw reasoned conclusions. (AC9S6I05)

Design Technologies

Technologies and Society

Explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (AC9TDE6K01)

Technologies Context: Engineering Principles and Systems

Explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system. (AC9TDE6K02)

Materials and Technologies Specialisations

Explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions. (AC9TDE6K05)

Investigating and Defining

Investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions. (AC9TDE6P01)

Evaluating

Negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions. (AC9TDE6P04)

First Nations communities of Australia maintain a deep connection to, and responsibility for, Country/Place and have holistic values and belief systems that are connected to the land, sea, sky and waterways. (A_TSICP1)

First Nations Australians' ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing. (A_TSIC2)

All life forms, including human life, are connected through Earth's systems (geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere) on which they depend for their wellbeing and survival. (SS1)

Sustainable patterns of living require the responsible use of resources, maintenance of clean air, water and soils, and preservation or restoration of healthy environments. (SS2)

Critical and Creative Thinking – Inquiring, Generating, Analysing, Reflecting.

Personal and Social Capabilities - Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Social management. 

Intercultural Understanding - Reflect on the relationship between cultures and identities; Examine cultural perspectives and worldviews and explore the influence of cultures on interactions.

Ethical Understanding - Explore ethical concepts; Examine values, rights and responsibilities and ethical norms; Recognise influences on ethical behaviour and perspectives.