Design and Technology Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)

The Design and Technology Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to explore and develop technologies in the context of a design project. Students develop knowledge and understanding of the ways in which factors impact on design, including the interrelationship of these.

Study of the Design and Technology Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ understanding of research, design, systems and environments, as well as their ability to manipulate and produce products.

The structure of the Design and Technology Life Skills course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study selected outcomes and content within the course.

Study of the Design and Technology Life Skills course involves:

• knowledge and understanding of a design process
• knowledge and skills of a range of technologies for a variety of purposes in the production of a design project
• factors that impact on design
• application of design processes to design, produce and evaluate quality design projects and satisfy identified needs
• appreciation of the interrelationship between design, technology, the individual, society and the environment

Board Developed Course

Course number(s):

• 16682 Design and Technology Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
• 16682 Design and Technology Life Skills (2 units – HSC)

Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.

Corequisites: Nil

Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility

Study via self-tuition: No

Exclusions:

• 11080 Design and Technology (2 units – Preliminary)
• 15080 Design and Technology (2 units – HSC)
• 16686 Technology Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Design and Technology is undertaken within the course)
• 16686 Technology Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Design and Technology is undertaken within the course)

On entering students for the Design and Technology Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.

Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Design and Technology Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.

The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.

Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:

• Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Construction
• Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services
• Manufacturing
• Mining