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The aim of the foundation course is for students to experience problem solving through the design process.
In Years 7 and 8, students will:
- produce a range of products in a variety of materials, forms and styles, using different tools, equipment, techniques and processes including CAD/CAM
- recall and apply their knowledge and skills in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
- learn to understand the different criteria by which technological products can be criticised and judged, and to employ those criteria when critically responding to, and making reasoned judgements about their own products and those designed and made by others.
- listen to each other's views and hopefully reflect upon them.
Students will be taught through a range of projects to:
- enhance their abilities to generate ideas for designs in response to a wide range of real or realistic technological problems. Students should explore, develop, clarify and communicate those ideas by a variety of constructional and graphic means, with and without the aid of computers.
- seek out, and to draw upon, a range of information sources in order to help them generate, develop or realise their designs.
- understand the characteristics and properties of a variety of materials, and to manipulate those materials by the accurate and effective use of appropriate tools, equipment, techniques and processes in order to produce an intended outcome.
- appreciate the health and safety issues associated with working with certain materials, tools, equipment and processes, and to take such matters into account when designing their own products, and in their capacities as critics or consumers.
- follow both verbal and written instructions accurately.
- interact in a manner that demonstrates mutual respect.
- demonstrate an awareness of general workshop safety from both a personal and group point of view.
A. Pickford
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