1] I can demonstrate through my design and understand that designing is not about finding a single correct answer, but involves making creative and relevant design proposals.
CREATIVE LEARNING
2] I can describe and model an idea with some guidance, such as verbally, visually, graphically, physically or digitally and through a systems approach, in order to gain control over its development.
PRACTICAL
3] I can gain insight from a task and aim to improve and learn further.
PERSONAL LEARNING
4] I can foresee and plan the implementation of my design ideas including basic provisions for health and safety precautions, lab safety and appropriately planned use of equipment available with ongoing assistance.
PRACTICAL
5] I can explore and be able to perform safely basic technological processes while relating to their technological application with guidance.
PRACTICAL
6] I can identify design problems in basic terms of needs, opportunities and feasibility, as a group or guided independently.
COGNITIVE
7] I can reflect on developed ideas and make stated choices based on the criteria of the design specifications developed with guidance.
COGNITIVE
8] I can understand the different roles of clients, users and designers and communicate this as part of the context for a problem, with some guidance.
 COGNITIVE LEARNING
9] I am aware of and can follow an entrepreneurship role in designing products and services that are desirable and can lead to product success.
PRACTICAL
10] I can use tools for planning and communicating strategic ideas graphically and with simple diagrams.
PRACTICAL
11] I can use my questions and analysis of a problem to derive basic specifications that can respond to needs, opportunities and lead to a feasible solution.
COGNITIVE
12] I can use inspirational research material as a starting point for generating my product ideas.
 CREATIVE LEARNING
13] I can iterate to and from solutions and problem to refine my design proposal in a guided structure.
 CREATIVE LEARNING
14] I can apply and document with small guidance, technology aspects into my design ideas, making way for innovative development and peer/social critique.
PRACTICAL
15] I am aware of and can document a project sequentially based on a design process while also work iteratively to accomplish the design goal within a guided structure.
COGNITIVE

1] I can check design proposals against design criteria.
2] I can evaluate features of a product against their intended function.
COGNITIVE
3] I can look at my documented project as a process and talk about my overall performance and learning.
4] I can consider limitations of time, skills and resources.
PRACTICAL
5] I understand the importance of self-image, self-esteem and self-confidence.
 PERSONAL
6] I can gain insight from ideas and models.
PERSONAL
7] I can think critically and constructively pass judgements on others' work.
INTERPERSONAL
8] I am able to consider different perspectives.
SELF AWARENESS
9] I can review and analyse the influence of style in my own and others' designed products.
COGNITIVE
10] I can interpret an artefact as a product and as an entrepreneurial medium in a basic consumer market structure.
11] I can describe how all technologies have consequences and their use leads to some groups gaining and some losing. 
COMMUNICATING FOR DIVERSITY
12] I am aware of the effect of a product on the environment and finite resource depletion.
LEARNING TO KNOW
13] I am conscious of the implications of material waste.
 LEARNING TO KNOW
14] I understand that designing makes me responsible for my decisions
LEARNING TO KNOW
 

1] I can collect project and user data from my own surveys with guidance.
COGNITIVE LEARNING
2] I can collect basic data from other people's projects as well as from the Internet.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
3] I can use observation and recording tools for collecting data about a product and its users. 
PRACTICAL
4] I can use research tools, e.g. mind mapping, questioning, analysing, selecting and interpreting data, with guidance.
PRACTICAL
5] I can obtain and record basic technical data on other materials or components, keeping in mind health and safety issues.
PRACTICAL  
6] I can use my design brief as a general research guide to form appropriate questions on the purposive needs, wants and opportunities within my project, with guidance.
PRACTICAL

1] I can use hand tools, digital tools (ICT), hand power tools and machine tools, to carry out a range of discrete processes safely and adequately. 
PRACTICAL
2] I can understand and adopt personal health and safety D&T lab practices.
PRACTICAL
3] I can produce artefacts that are siutable to satisfy basic functional and aesthetic needs in a given design problem.
PRACTICAL
4] I can identify and work with, to a relative degree of accuracy, different materials, such as modelling materials, e.g. paper, card, polystyrene, etc. natural, solid and fibrous materials, e.g. timbers, textiles, synthetic or engineered materials, e.g. manmade boards, polymers, synthetic fabrics, etc., and metalic minerals, e.g. ferrous and non ferrous metals. I am also aware of composite and alloyed materials, e.g. alloys, composites, smart materials, rare materials. 
PRACTICAL
5] I can select and annotate different materials according to their general classification and aesthetic qualities, e.g. visual and tactile.
6] I am able to understand and describe the different properties,in terms of the product, of materials and how these can be used to inform my design decisions.
COGNITIVE
7] I can use a range of processes, safely, to realise a design in a three-dimensional form. These may include: marking, cutting, deforming, machining, combining, wasting, and preparation for finishing.
PRACTICAL

1] I can understand the concept of systems approach.
2] I can analyse a system and its sub-systems.
COGNITIVE
3] I can identify basic system components and sub-systems.
4] I can plan a basic system in terms of Input process and output.
PRACTICAL
5] I can recognise the applications of processes, inputs and outputs.
COGNITIVE
6] I can represent systems in graphical and symbolic ways.
COMMUNICATION
7] I can model, simulate and prototype a basic system.
PRACTICAL
8] I can identify the main characteristics of components, i.e. electrical and electronic.
9] I can select discrete components by their physical features and relate them to their graphical symbols.
10] I can describe how CAD/CAM is used for designing objects and components in industry.
MANAGING LEARNING
11] I can identify materials and parts appropriate to support and assemble electrical and mechanical components in a system e.g. wires, insulators, solder, circuit boards, fasteners, and casing.
COGNITIVE
12] I can identify mechanical components e.g. levers, pulleys, cams, cranks, gears, linkages, by their physical appearance.
COGNITIVE
13] I can identify components and devices in the electronic analogue domain including discrete circuit boards, resistors, diodes, batteries, capacitors, switches; and in the digital domain including ICs, PIC microcontrollers, digital electronic devices like memory sticks and tablets.
14] I can identify electro-mechanical components by their physical features and graphical symbols, e.g. electric motor, stepper motor, speaker.
COGNITIVE
15] I can measure component parameters.
PRACTICAL
16] I can explain through my extended ideas how programmable microcontroller devices could be used to extend my electronic projects' possibilities.
17] I can read and understand basic circuit schematic diagrams and translate them into simple and working physical curcuits.
PRACTICAL
18] I can organise and set up the working area, as instructed, taking care of health and safety, and safe use of equipment.
PRACTICAL
19] I can join components permanantly using soldering and physical connections.
PRACTICAL
20] I can follow health and safety precautions, use appropriate PPE and be aware of hazards in using processes, tools and components.
PRACTICAL
21] I can assemble and build a basic system.
PRACTICAL
22] I can use adequate tools to handle, assemble, disassemble, replace, install, uninstall components safely, when constructing systems.
PRACTICAL
23] I can verify that systems can work with different sources of energy.
PRACTICAL
24] I can sequentially assamble systems into product models or prototypes on prototype board, strip/bread boards from given pictorial information.
PRACTICAL

1] I can produce neat, hand-printed letters, numbers and annotations.
PRACTICAL 
2] I can mark out and construct simple 2D geometrical shapes using different types of lines.
PRACTICAL
3] I can measure and appropriately dimension geometrical shapes and basic product parts.
PRACTICAL
4] I can draw simple 3D blocks with guidance using oblique, freehand isometric, grid isometric and appropriate isometric techniques.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
5] I can sketch and develop project ideas in 2D and basic 3D, making good use of basic graphic techniques, colour, rendering and annotations.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
6] I can use colour to communicate effectively, e.g. Colour coding, basic colour theory, aesthetic awereness
COMMUNICATION
7] I can understand and draw basic orthographic views of simple 3D objects with guidance, e.g. front, plan and end views introduced in 2 view layouts, no hidden geometry.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
8] I can draw and apply graphical symbols, individually and applied in functional diagrams including block diagrams, circuit schematic diagrams, dimensioning.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
9] I can draw tessellations and simple surface geometry nets.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
10] I can render 2D and 3D geometry using basic techniques, e.g. colouring and line texture.
USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA
11] I can communicate my design and research work graphically in my design folio using a variety of digital and hand drawn graphic techniques along with neat text. 
COMMUNICATION
12] I can make basic use of digital tools for communicating my design project, including to record, model, process by image digitisation and manipulation, printing, use basic electronic simulation software, interactive 3D modelling software. I am also aware of additive manufacturing technology e.g. 3D printing, and can make basic use of it where available.
COMMUNICATION

1] I can follow all guidelines to work safely in the relevant technology lab following the embedded health and safety directions presented throughout the relevant technology area.
PRACTICAL