Stage 1 Metal Solutions
ASSUMED BACKGROUND: Successful completion of a Year 10 Metal Solutions course is an advantage.
CURRICULUM CHARGES: $120 per semester
CONTENT
This course is your gateway to mastering the art of metalworking. Learn essential skills in using a variety of tools and machinery, from traditional hand tools to modern equipment. Develop your welding expertise and bring your creative designs to life. You’ll learn to think critically, problem-solve, and collaborate as you transform raw materials into stunning metal creations.
Course content will be a selection of the following:
Process and production skills: Develop knowledge and skills in using tools and machinery safely in a workshop environment. Students develop their knowledge of processes applicable to their designed product.
Investigating and designing: Knowledge on how to develop design concepts and prepare them for production, using a range of technologies.
Evaluating: Evaluation skills, enabling designed products to be analysed informing good design.
Collaborating and managing: Develop plans to manage design tasks, including safe and responsible use of materials and tools. Students learn how to work independently within a collaborative workshop environment.
ASSESSMENT TYPES
Specialist Skills Tasks:
Ability to design and produce solutions to given criteria using specialised production or design skills.
Design Portfolio and Product:
Design, produce and evaluate your own product. The product to develop can be chosen by the student in collaboration with their teacher as cost, space, time and capacity need to be considered.
Resource Study:
Evaluation of two materials or components.
Investigation of an ethical, social, economic, legal or environmental issue their product presents.
