The Foundation Statements and the Stage 1 outcome for designing and making place an emphasis on students: responding to investigations of needs and wants following a guided design process to create products drawing and modelling design ideas using accepted methods and practices.

Students designing in Stage 1 Science and Technology

At Stage 1, students become more methodical in their approach to designing. They are more willing to draw and model ideas before settling on a final solution. They start to appreciate how products and environments are designed to meet people’s needs. Students work co-operatively sharing resources and helping others where necessary.

Following are two samples of classroom practice.

Sample Task A: Design a shelter for an animal of

your choice

Stage 1 Task A: Design a shelter for an animal of your choice

exploring needs

Teacher: “We brainstormed ideas and saved them for use when designing.”

generating ideas

success criteria

communicating

producing from drawings

producing from drawings

Stage 1 Task A: Design a shelter for an animal of your choice (cont.)

Sample Task B : Design and make a

container to hold coloured pencils

generating ideas

producing

design task

Stage 1 Task B: Design and make a container to hold coloured pencils

evaluating

producing

evaluating

Stage 1 Task B: Design and make a container to hold coloured pencils (cont.)

producing evaluating