TechnoPush Timeline

Term 1

• Website materials available
• Locate materials, people, resources
• Introduce design brief, set the scene

What we know & what we want to learn - about Pushcarts

Who can help us? 

Term 2

Designing and producing the pushcart

• (re)Introduce design brief, build the context - HSIE link
• Discuss, analyse and clarify design brief
• Negotiate criteria for success
• Identify individual team tasks - preparing for Step 4* (optional allocation of teams)

What skills do we need to learn?

Record of design criteria 

• Conduct investigations on components of pushcarts. Generate questions to be explored
• Record observations, results of investigations and make recommendations for design of the pushcart.

Records of investigations, photos of students

Assessment and reflection point 

• Revisit and clarify design brief and criteria
• Use models to generate and refine design ideas
• Record design ideas using appropriate drawing techniques
• Collaborate/select solution to be constructed

**Access via email, to experts to assist students in making their decisions

Prepare for EDUCATION WEEK: Display KDC-NRMA TechnoPush Challenge investigations, design solutions, models and design journals

Images of students generating ideas, models and records of proposed solutions 

Assessment and reflection point

• Negotiate production teams and tasks: presentation; marketing; fitness and safety; pushcart construction
• Identify criteria for each team task
• Teams work to prepare for KDC-NRMA TechnoPush Challenge  Event.

Records of processes, decisions, notes, images, and procedures

Assessment and reflection point 

• Testing of the pushcart against criteria
• Evaluate other products
• Modify pushcart and products, as required
• Begin practising for KDC-NRMA TechnoPush Challenge Event.
   

Images and documentation of team products

Assessment and reflection point 

Term 3

Design and construction completed by the end of Term 2

• Evaluate cart prior to scrutineering using pushcart checklist (PDF 107KB/1 page)
• Scrutineering by NRMA experts - at school 

• Modification, learning to drive/push, practise teamwork, seatbelts
• Finalising and evaluating the presentation
  Preparation of CD to submit