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STAGE 2 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
Material Products
Assessment Type 1: Skills and Applications Task
Materials Applications
Purpose
This task provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to: investigate and critically analyse the purpose, design concepts, processes, and production techniques of existing products investigate and analyse the differing characteristics and properties of materials or components. apply appropriate knowledge and understanding of skills, processes, procedures, and techniques to a range of technological activities.
Description of assessment
Investigate and analyse the properties of two or more materials or components that may be suitable for use in the creation of your major product.
1. Begin by considering the critical properties required of materials used in your final product (e.g. hardness, durability, malleability, rigidibility, machinability, or others).
2. Devise methods in which you test materials to determine their suitability (e.g. research, tests, experiments).
3. Investigate a number of possible options for your choice of materials. Identify their properties. Select two that you think may be most suitable for your product.
4. Investigate these two materials to a greater depth using the methods you identified in Step 2 and include an analysis of the impact of the materials on individuals, society, and/or the environment.
5. Summarise and evaluate the results of your experimentation with a recommendation for use in your major product.
Assessment conditions
You should negotiate the method of presentation before starting.
You have one week of lesson time in which to complete the testing component of the task and 2 weeks for completion of the report.
The presentation of the results of your investigation and analysis should be a maximum of 800 words if written or a maximum of 5 minutes if presented as recorded multimedia material.
Learning Requirements
Assessment
Material Products
Assessment Type 1: Skills and Applications Task
Materials Applications
Purpose
This task provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to: investigate and critically analyse the purpose, design concepts, processes, and production techniques of existing products investigate and analyse the differing characteristics and properties of materials or components. apply appropriate knowledge and understanding of skills, processes, procedures, and techniques to a range of technological activities.
Description of assessment
Investigate and analyse the properties of two or more materials or components that may be suitable for use in the creation of your major product.
1. Begin by considering the critical properties required of materials used in your final product (e.g. hardness, durability, malleability, rigidibility, machinability, or others).
2. Devise methods in which you test materials to determine their suitability (e.g. research, tests, experiments).
3. Investigate a number of possible options for your choice of materials. Identify their properties. Select two that you think may be most suitable for your product.
4. Investigate these two materials to a greater depth using the methods you identified in Step 2 and include an analysis of the impact of the materials on individuals, society, and/or the environment.
5. Summarise and evaluate the results of your experimentation with a recommendation for use in your major product.
Assessment conditions
You should negotiate the method of presentation before starting.
You have one week of lesson time in which to complete the testing component of the task and 2 weeks for completion of the report.
The presentation of the results of your investigation and analysis should be a maximum of 800 words if written or a maximum of 5 minutes if presented as recorded multimedia material.
Learning Requirements
Assessment