Design and the Design Process
How a need becomes a brief, a sketch and a specification before anything is cut.
- Needs, problems and opportunities
- Writing a design brief
- Research and existing solutions
NSW Industrial Technology Years 7-8 (Stage 4, Year 7) - design, materials and processes, making and safety - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Industrial Technology Year 7” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
How a need becomes a brief, a sketch and a specification before anything is cut.
Timber, metal, plastic and textile: what they are like, and what that means for making.
Working safely in a workshop and producing work that meets the drawing.
A Industrial Technology Year 7 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| select | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.