DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY- PRODUCT DESIGN
GCSE
Awarding Body: AQA
Course Code: 8552
QAN: 603/0984/2
OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE
Our GCSE Design and Technology (Product Design) will prepare students to participate confidently and successfully in an increasingly technological world. Students will gain awareness and learn from wider influences on Design and Technology including historical, social, cultural, environmental and economic factors. Students will get the opportunity to work creatively when designing and making and apply technical and practical expertise. Our GCSE allows students to study core technical, designing, and making principles, including a broad range of design processes, materials techniques and equipment. They will also have the opportunity to study specialist technical principles in greater depth.
CONTENT AND ASSESSMENT
External Exam: (worth 50% of the final grade) 2 hours
External Exam: (worth 50% of the final grade) 2 hours Students will develop their knowledge and understanding of the areas of design technology and product design to include, Core Technical Principles, Specialist Technical principles and designing and making principles. These core skills will be assessed using a mixture of question styles including an extended response that will require the use of the skills learnt to generate ideas.
Coursework and practical assessment (worth 50% of the final grade)
Students will complete a substantial design and make a task from a provided scenario following the design cycle of identifying and investigating design possibilities, producing a design brief and specification, generating design ideas, developing design ideas, realising design ideas and analysing and evaluating their final outcome. Students will respond by investigating and defining the needs and wants of the user using relevant research to produce a design brief and specification. Students will generate design ideas with flair and creativity and develop these to create a final design solution (including modelling). Students will also be required to manufacture a final prototype that is fit for purpose and a final evaluation.