CAPS CURRICULUM
Can use LEGO
Grade 9 Technology
TERM 1 – Gr. 9 Structures
Hours Topic
2 Design Skills
2 Design Skills
2 Structures
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1: Mini PAT
[70%]
2 Investigation skills
Making skills
2
Costing
2 Making Skills
4 Evaluation and
Communication
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK: [30%]
16 hours in total: 12 hours use of LEGO
TERM 2 – Gr. 9 Mechanical System and Control
Hours Topic
2 Mechanical systems and
control
2 The hydraulic press (including simple calculations).
Investigation Skills
2 Mechanical systems and
control
Mechanical systems and
2 control
Evaluation skills
2 Design skills
Communication skills
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 2:
Mini PAT [70%]
2 Investigation skills
Design skills
3 Making Skills
2 Communication skills
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK: [30%]
17 hours in total: 17 hours use of LEGO
Content, concepts and skills
Drawing 3D objects on paper with different views
Design problem: drawing in 3D
Static and dynamic forces.
Strength of materials under the action of forces
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1: Mini-PAT
TOPIC: Structures
CONTENT: Identifying a problem within a given scenario
Investigate a scenario on structures
Costing exercise and flow diagram
Model of a viable solution
Evaluate: teams use own evaluation instrument
Team presentations
Formal Assessment Task: Test
Content, concepts and skills
Pneumatic system and hydraulic system.
The hydraulic jack.
Pulley systems
Mechanical control systems
Spur gears
Bevel gears
Rack-and-pinion gear system as
Worm gear system
Evaluate: mechanisms found in the modern kitchen
and/or home, workshop/garage.
Artistic Drawing: single vanishing point perspective, 3D
drawing
TOPIC: Integrated Systems – Mechanical / Electrical /
Other
CONTENT: Problem Solving / Mechanical Advantage
Investigate
The design brief
Sketches
Plan: working drawings
Make: prototype/working model
Team presentations:
Test
 TERM 3 – Gr. 9 Electrical/Electronic Systems
Hours Topic Content, concepts and skills

Electrical component symbols

Electrical systems and
2 Simple circuits
control
Ohm’s law quantitatively
Investigation skills
Action research
2 Electrical systems and RVI
control
Electrical systems and Switches, Diodes and LED
4
control Transistors, Sensors
Thermistor, Touch or moisture detector, Capacitors
2 Electronic systems and Simple electronic circuits:
control
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3: Short Practical Assessment Task
Mini PAT [70%] Innovation: Electronic Systems and Control
2 Investigating skills Investigate a circuit problem
Design skills The design brief:
Making skills Make: device /prototype/working model
2
The model must showcase a viable solution to the
problem.
4 Team presentations
Communication skills
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK: [30%] Test
18 hours in total: 0 hours use of LEGO

TERM 4 – Gr. 9 Processing

Hours Topic Content, concepts and skills

2 Preserving metal
Processing
2 Processing Indigenous Preserving food
technology
2 Processing Investigation Types of plastics and their uses
skills Investigation
2 Processing Investigation Case study
skills Systems diagram
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 4: Mini PAT TOPIC: Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
[70%]
Case study: plastics used on modern motor cars.
2 Investigation skills
Case study: plastics used around the home.
Problem identification
Sketch
2 Design skills
Plan
Making skills
Skills development
2 Making skills Practical sessions
Communication skills
2 Summative year-end examination covering
Final examination
16 hours in total: 0 hours use of LEGO