Tech by Design Student Book

Tech by Design provides a framework for the creation of design solutions across a range of materials and supports students to meet the Victorian and Australian Curriculum Design and Technologies' achievement standards. The student book provides opportunities for STEM learning and development of the relevant language, knowledge and skills required for senior-level study. The text covers technologies and society, engineering principles and systems, food and fibre production, materials and technologies specialisations, and creating designed solutions strands and sub-strands.

Section One focuses on understanding the design processes and key knowledge for the materials and technologies specialisations and engineering principles and systems. Section Two takes an integrated approach and addresses the technologies and society content, as well as the processes and production skills for creating designed solutions, through a series of design challenges suitable for wood, metal, plastic, textiles, modelling and prototyping.

Contents

• Section One: Getting Started
• 1. Design basics
• 2. Materials basics
• 3. Tools basics
• 4. Engineering basics
• Section Two: Design Challenges
• 5. Design to hold and store
• 6. Mechanical moves
• 7. Electrifying robots
• 8. Design to shelter and protect
• 9. Human-centred design
• 10. Sustainable solutions
• 11. Travelling to the future