Design project: Nutritious and sustainable - BELOW
Students were tasked with designing a nutritious and sustainable meal that would support preferred futures for adolescents. They were provided with four recipes to modify. Students created a glossary of terms relevant to the brief. They investigated the …
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Design project: Mini torch - BELOW
Students designed and produced a working prototype of a mini torch case using CAD-CAM and a control system. They investigated CAD-CAM technologies and rapid prototyping systems. Students investigated the characteristics and properties of electronics and …
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Digital project: Organising ideas - BELOW
Students generated a digital mind map as a way to display pictorial data. They collected data about known places around the school in the form of digital photos taken using a tablet computer. They used an app to create a mind map to represent these data. …
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Data project: Clean school - BELOW
Students collected, collated and recorded data about rubbish in an assigned area of the school. They represented data as a series of graphs and on a map. They enhanced the map by adding images and a key.
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Digital project: Learning tool - BELOW
Students collaboratively designed a learning tool featuring branching and repetition. The learning tool aimed to provide opportunities for players (Year 3 and 4 students) to explore, practise and apply mathematical concepts and skills (multiplication …
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Digital project: Representation of data - BELOW
Students created a website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control visual elements of their web page, and developed an understanding of why data needed to be compressed and separated from presentation. They used Unicode to create a greeting and …
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Digital project: Exploring Python - BELOW
Students designed and implemented solutions to increasingly complex problems using the object-oriented programming language Python. They explored different programming constructs and user interfaces using both a command line and graphical interface. Students …
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Digital project: Python game - BELOW
Students were provided with a game that had been developed by previous students at the school using Python. They were required to correct any errors and to modify the game by creating additional features and functionality, for example new character races, …
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Digital project: Bee-Bot - BELOW
Students explored the concept of sequencing steps and decisions using Bee-Bots. They worked in groups to solve progressively more complex routes using grids on paper. Students then programmed the Bee-Bots to navigate grids created on the floor using masking …
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Design project: Push pull toy - BELOW
Students explored forces of push and pull on the ground, in the air and in the water. They focused on the toys that they use but also learned about toys from other cultures. Students designed their own toys, and safely produced a toy using materials, …
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Design project: All systems go - BELOW
Students investigated two closed force systems (pneumatics and hydraulics) to understand that the technology of pneumatics relates to air pressure and the technology of hydraulics relates to water pressure. They were given a design brief to design a machine …
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Design and Technologies - Below satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can explain factors that influence the design of products, services and environments to meet present and future needs (WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4). The student explains the contribution of design and technology …
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Design and Technologies - Below satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe competing considerations in the design of products, services and environments, taking into account sustainability (WS1, WS2, WS3). The student describes how design and technologies contribute …
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Video: Superheroes - BELOW
Students studied the 'action superhero' film genre as an extension to prior work in Drama based on superheroes as characters in short plays. The aim was to ensure that the students understood the key differences between artwork in drama and modern media. Through …
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