Designing with the whole lifecycle in mind, and defending the trade-offs.
These are the statements the Design and Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Sustainability in Design. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Lifecycle assessment - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Material selection for impact - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Design for disassembly - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Circular economy models - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Energy in production and use - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Waste and packaging - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Regulation and standards - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Sustainable design case studies - Sustainability in Design, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Sustainability in Design are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Design and Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Sustainability in Design is module 3 of 3 in Design and Technology Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Design and Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.