Blackfriars Priory School Grade:

Year 10
Design, Technology and Engineering

Portfolio

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School Assessment
Purpose
Students produce two tasks in the design process and solution assessment type
that will provide evidence of the investigation and planning stages of the Design
Process.
Students are tasked with creating a design brief that provides the basis for the
development of potential solutions for your Resin coffee table with a theme of your choice.
Students will select and use appropriate technologies skillfully and safely to produce high-quality
designed solutions suitable for the intended purpose.

Task Description
Task 1- Investigation
- Students will use the design process to investigate and analyse existing products for their features
and aesthetics.
Task 2 - Plan
- Students will design and plan to make a product (solution), based on what features and aesthetics
appealed to them in Task 1

Assessment Conditions

Task 1
Evidence of this assessment type should be provided in multimodal form to a maximum of 4 minutes, 400
words in written form or a combination of these.
Task 2
Evidence of this assessment type should be provided in multimodal form to a maximum of 4 minutes, 400
words in written form or a combination of these.

For this assessment, students will provide evidence of their learning in reference to the following
assessment design criteria:

 Knowledge and Understanding

 Processes and Production Skills

Task 1 – Investigation
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Students will use the investigation process to investigate and analyse existing products for their features
and aesthetics.

Evidence of task 1 should be provided in multimodal form to a maximum of 3 minutes, 400 words in
written form or a combination of these.

1. Need Identification: (50 words)

Identify a need, problem or opportunity.

Example: At the moment in my living room, I have a space where I would like to be able to place my coffee
cup and phone down while I’m watching the Adelaide crows with my family. The problem is I have nothing
in place to do this.

2. Research and Analysis (minimum of 3 images)

Research and analyse factors that will inform your design brief. Analyse existing products for their
features and aesthetics (Consider materials, production techniques, pre-existing designs/projects)
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Profile (Shape of the coffee table) (100 words)

Image Positives Minus Recommendations
What do you like about What don’t you like What elements of the design
the design? about this design? could you include in your
What are the particular What would you change? solution?
design features that you
like?

Reference: www.nickscali.com.au. (n.d.). Tanami Round Coffee Table. [online] Available at:
https://www.nickscali.com.au/tanami-round-coffee-table [Accessed 9 Dec. 2022].

Reference:

Reference

Resin designs (100 words)

Image Positives Minus Recommendations
What do you like about What don’t you like What elements of the design
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the design? about this design? could you include in your

What are the particular What would you solution?
design features that you change?
like?

Reference: www.etsy.com. (n.d.). Round Resin Coffee Table Blue Epoxy End Table Made European - Etsy Australia. [online]
Available at: https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/675092941/round-resin-coffee-table-blue-epoxy-end [Accessed 9 Dec. 2022].

Reference

Reference

3. Design Brief: (150 words plus images, diagrams and drawings)

Create a design brief that outlines context, constraints and considerations

I intend to construct a resin coffee table…

Context:

Constraints:

Considerations:

Task 2 – Plan

Students will design and plan to make a product (resin coffee table), based on what features and
aesthetics appealed to them in Task 1.
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Evidence of task 2 should be provided in multimodal form to a maximum of 3 minutes, 400 words in
written form or a combination of these.

Design Brief Reaction (Concept sketches – 3 different designs for both profile/resin
designs)
Profile (Shape of the coffee table) (50 words each sketch)
What I like about this design:

What I do not like about this design:

What I like about this design:

What I do not like about this design:
What I like about this design:
What I do not like about this design:

Resin designs (50 words each sketch)

What I like about this design:

What I do not like about this design:

What I like about this design:

What I do not like about this design:
What I like about this design:
What I do not like about this design:

Chosen design & theme (justification of final design, 100 words)

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I have chosen this final design because…

Technical Drawings (CAD files)

Add in screen shots of your Fusion 360 drawings of your resin coffee table

Plan (Timeline of build)

Step Details
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2
3
4
5

Specific Features of
the Assessment A B C D E
Design Criteria

Knowledge and Understanding

Explain the features Compare and explain Compare and explain Explain the features Explain the features Not yet able to
of technologies and the features of the features of of technologies and of technologies and explain the features of
their appropriateness technologies and their technologies and their their appropriateness their appropriateness technologies and their
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for purpose, and appropriateness for appropriateness for for purpose, and for purpose, and appropriateness for
create designed purpose, and create purpose, and create create designed create designed purpose, or create
solutions based on an designed solutions designed solutions solutions based on an solutions designed solutions
analysis of needs or based on an analysis based on an analysis analysis of needs or
opportunities and evaluation of of needs or opportunities
needs or opportunities opportunities

Processes and Production Skills

Create, adapt and Create, adapt and Create, adapt and Create, adapt and Create, adapt and No yet able to create,
refine design ideas, refine design ideas, refine design ideas, refine design ideas, refine design ideas, adapt and refine
processes and processes and processes and processes and processes and design ideas,
solutions and justify solutions and justify, solutions and justify solutions and justify solutions processes and
their decisions against critique and compare and critique their their decisions against solutions
developed design their decisions against decisions against developed design
criteria that include developed design developed design criteria that include
sustainability criteria that include criteria that include sustainability
sustainability sustainability

Communicate design Analyse, Analyse and Communicate design Identify design ideas, Not yet able to
ideas, processes and communicate and communicate design ideas, processes and processes and identify design ideas,
solutions to a range of compare design ideas, ideas, processes and solutions to a range of solutions to a range of processes and
audiences, including processes and solutions to a range of audiences, including audiences, including solutions to a range of
using digital tools solutions to a range of audiences, including using digital tools using digital tools audiences, including
audiences, including using digital tools using digital tools
using digital tools
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