Metal Technology

be given the opportunity to investigate and provide solutions to design challenges. Advanced students will also be given the opportunity to develop wood turning.

AIMS

The technologies curriculum aims to develop active and informed citizens and consumers. It enables students to become confident, creative, ethical, enterprising, environmentally and socially responsible innovators. Students will develop the technologies knowledge, understanding and skills to engage purposefully in the process of creating preferred futures. They will use a range of thinking skills, including futures and systems thinking, to generate and communicate creative ideas. These ideas will be enacted through the practical application of design and computational thinking along with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. The end products students produce (make) will be effective, meaningful and culturally authentic solutions to identified problems or opportunities in personal, family, community and global settings.

ASSESSMENT Students are explicitly taught how to manage projects including planning; evaluating technologies; considering constraints; risk assessment and management; decision making strategies; quality control; developing resource, finance, work and time plans; and collaborating and communicating with others at different stages of the process. Assessing and managing risk in this subject addresses the safe use of technologies and the risks that can affect project timelines. It covers all necessary aspects of health, safety and injury prevention at any year level and in any technologies context when using potentially dangerous materials, tools and equipment.

METAL TECHNOLOGY

COURSE DESCRIPTION Students will study some initial safety in the workshop. A number of small and simple projects will be constructed to introduce students to basic skills and equipment. Students will study safety in the workshop; design factors; workshop graphics; surface finishing; using metalworking tools and equipment; methods of manipulating sheet metal and metal-turning. Students will also be given the opportunity to investigate and provide solutions to design challenges.

Students will develop new skills and knowledge in relation to joining metals. Students will study the planning and designing of projects; the use of power tools and equipment;

manufacturing processes and fastening techniques. Students will gain skills. and be given the opportunity to investigate and provide solutions to design challenges. Advanced students will also be given the opportunity to develop metal turning.

AIMS

The technologies curriculum aims to develop active and informed citizens and consumers. It enables students to become confident, creative, ethical, enterprising, environmentally and socially responsible innovators. Students will develop the technologies knowledge, understanding and skills to engage purposefully in the process of creating preferred futures. They will use a range of thinking skills, including futures and systems thinking, to generate and communicate creative ideas. These ideas will be enacted through the practical application of design and computational thinking along with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. The end products students produce (make) will be effective, meaningful and culturally authentic solutions to identified problems or opportunities in personal, family, community and global settings.

ASSESSMENT Students are explicitly taught how to manage projects including planning; evaluating technologies; considering constraints; risk assessment and management; decision making strategies; quality control; developing resource, finance, work and time plans; and collaborating and communicating with others at different stages of the process. Assessing and managing risk in this subject addresses the safe use of technologies and the risks that can affect project timelines. It covers all necessary aspects of health, safety and injury prevention at any year level and in any technologies context when using potentially dangerous materials, tools and equipment.