3DPD

3 Design and Product Development

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr N. Padavatan.

Students will continue to expand and develop their product  or architectural design skills allowing them to showcase their talents and exhibit their work. The design process will be extensively applied to situations requiring design solutions and students will have the opportunity to improve their computer aided design work, visual communication and drawing skills.                                               

       


    

Course Overview

Term 1
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment: A.S. 91608 v3 Generic Technology 3.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue within a determined context.
Students to research and investigate sports and recreation centers. Students to write a report of their new re-designed sports and recreation center that is fit for purpose.

Term 2
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment A.S. 91627 v3 Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration.
Student to choose a sea creature and use exploration techniques to redesign a sports and recreation center.

Term 3
Topic: Sports and Recreation Center
Assessment: A.S. 91629 v3 Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice
Students to produce a portfolio of work with different concepts of their proposed sports and recreation center.

Term 4
Prepare portfolio work for externals.

Recommended Prior Learning

 Students should have taken 2 DPD or 2ART.                                          

       


    

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

Equipment: A3 visual diary

Pathway

Architecture, technical design and mapping may be for you if you are interested in:

creating, designing and planning products, urban areas, or structures such as buildings or boats
preparing plans, drawings, models or maps
analysing and interpreting information
using computer-aided design (CAD) software.

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

This course is approved for University Entrance.

Total Credits Available: 14
Internal Assessed Credits: 10
External Assessed Credits: 4
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91608 v3
NZQA Info

Generic Technology 3.1 - Undertake brief development to address an issue within a determined context


Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91627 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration


Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91629 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice


Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0 *
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 14
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Approved subject for University Entrance

Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 14

Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.