How a need becomes a brief, a sketch and a specification before anything is cut.
These are the statements the Industrial Technology Year 7 syllabus makes about Design and the Design Process. 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.
Needs, problems and opportunities - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Writing a design brief - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Research and existing solutions - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Sketching and ideation - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Specifications and constraints - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Evaluating a design against brief - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Design communication: drawings and labels - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Working drawings and scale - Design and the Design Process, Year 7.
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Design and the Design Process 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 Industrial Technology Year 7 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.
Design and the Design Process opens the Industrial Technology Year 7 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Industrial Technology Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.