Years 7 and 8 · Technologies · Knowledge and understanding

AC9TDE8K06

analyse how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions

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1. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K01explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments
2. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K02explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system
3. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K03explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments
4. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K04explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating
5. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K05explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions
6. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K01analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical, security and sustainability factors to innovate and improve products, services and environments
7. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K02analyse the impact of innovation, enterprise and emerging technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures
8. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K03analyse and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to control engineered systems
9. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K04analyse and make judgements on the ethical, secure and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre enterprises
10. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K05analyse and make judgements on how the sensory and functional properties of food influence the design and preparation of sustainable food solutions for healthy eating
11. Years 9 and 10AC9TDE10K06analyse and make judgements on how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions