Tawa College

Year 9 TECHNOLOGY - Product: Designer-Maker

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: H. Browne.

Recommended Prior Learning

You will need a strong interest in design and in being creative. You will also need to be able to be adaptable in your thinking and enjoy problem solving.

You will need to be a responsible student to work in our workshop, and be able to work alongside other students to create a strong learning community, where we support each other to succeed.

Do you have a passion for problem solving, designing and making things ?

This is a design and make course. You will use a design process to design and develop a product which you will then go on to make.

You will learn:

· how to use the design process to create inventive and unique design ideas

· how to work with wood

· to make your creation come to life in the Tawa College workshop

Course Overview

Semester A
This is a half year course.

Learning Areas:

Year 9 Courses, Technology

Pathway

10 Product Design and Making (Workshop)

Career Pathways

Animator/Digital Artist, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Architect, Architectural Technician, Art Director (Film, Television or Stage), Artist, Sound Technician, Baker, Tailor/Dressmaker, Boat Builder, Naval Architect, Urban/Regional Planner, Cutter, Fashion Designer, Sewing Machinist, Trainer, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

Students will be required to purchase the stationery items on the school stationery list, ready for the start of the course.