Thames High School
Materials Processing - Design and build a solution/outcome/project (Y10)
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr S. Slaney.
Do you enjoy designing and building things? Do you want to know more about how things work and how to fix them? Do you enjoy solving problems? Do you want to learn how to use tools and machines and build your confidence in using them? Are you interested in exploring or taking a path into the trades or design careers. If so then this is the course for you.
You will be given several challenges to solve which will teach you about a range of materials, construction methods and procedures. You will learn how to work safely in a workshop environment and follow the necessary health and safety procedures when using tools and machines.
You will then be able to design and create a project of you choice (with no reasonable limits). This will involve researching information, creating possible solutions, selecting the most appropriate one, developing your idea into a final design and then making it. This project can be for yourself or others.
Materials are not just limited to wood or metal; a range of plastics, composite and electrical materials can also be used.
You will also learn about drawing communication methods and use Digital Technology to communicate your ideas.
This is a two term course.
Course Overview
Term 1
Introduction to Safety
Making several small projects to learn about the types of materials than can be used, the tools that can be used to manipulate them and how to use them safely.
Learn or progress skills in visual communication (drawing)
Using a design process to create, develop and explore a project of your choice.
Start to make your created design
Explore computation thinking (taking a large problem and creating a solution using smaller steps)
Term 2
Continue to make your design
Evaluate your design using a digital outcome to check the "fitness for purpose" of the final design
Depending on time you will be able to make a second project form a class list. This includes: rockets, Bluetooth speakers and electronics projects
Recommended Prior Learning
An ability to work safely in a workshop environment and an open mind in to learning new skills and ways of thinking.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
A cost for the materials used. This will vary in relation to the chosen project
Pathway
This course is a building block for gaining skills in design, construction, and repair. It will lead on to a number of career pathways which include practical Trades such as Building, Engineering, Plumbing and Electrical. If you are keen on going to university and studying technology or other areas of design then this is the pathway for you.
Materials and Processing Technology is a hands-on, creative subject that encourages ākonga to explore the three strands of the technology curriculum through the design and creation of fit-for-purpose outcomes. The practice of technology is grounded in intervention by design and ākonga will have multiple opportunities to demonstrate this.
Ākonga who study Materials and Processing Technology will develop knowledge about materials, techniques, and processes which are intrinsic to their application and use. They will learn to plan projects and develop specifications through design concepts and the use of briefs. They will create outcomes that address a need or opportunity.
Ākonga will cultivate life-long practical skills and learn to incorporate collaboration into their technological practice. They will also develop an understanding of sustainable practices through research and application.
As they study, ākonga will explore the importance of tikanga Māori and traditional Pacific practices to understand how technology and outcomes impact on people, hapū, and iwi. They will learn to appreciate this through consideration of the mātauranga Māori principles of kotahitanga, whanaungatanga, manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga and auahatanga.
Assessment Information
Assessment will be based on the Technology Curriculum.Areas that will be assessed are:
Safety
Brief development
Construction of an outcome (project)
Producing a digital outcome
Computational thinking
Pathway Tags
Boat Builder, Building Contractor, Carpenter, Coach builder/Trimmer, Mechanical Engineering Technician, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, Automotive Technician, Biomedical Technician, Mechanical Engineer, Motor Vehicle Salesperson, Marine Engineer, Refrigeration/Air-conditioning Technician,
Disclaimer
Courses outlined will only be available if sufficient students wish to take them AND appropriate staff are available to teach them.
Courses that do not run may be offered through distance learning and be supported by the Distance Learning Department.
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