Resistant Materials Technology – L3
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: M. Ashford-Beck.
Course highlights: This L3 achievement standard course is offered for students interested in engineering, architecture, or product design. Students gain technology skills and knowledge through designing and making a project using a range of resistant materials such as metal, wood and plastic.
Students will be given a project brief and expected to research design solutions, develop concept designs, and based on stakeholder feedback, make a 3D model of the final design to ensure it is ‘fit for purpose’.
Students will then build their project using resources in the technology workshops. While in the workshops they will learn about safety, project planning, material properties, and experience using a range of tools and machines.
Students are encouraged to use the school’s CNC router and laser cutter to create special design features for their project.
Vocational Pathway: Manufacturing and Technology, Construction and Infrastructure, Primary Industries.
This course can lead to: Further study at University or other Tertiary Institutions.
For more information, please see Teacher in Charge of Materials Technology, Mr Ashford-Beck.
Recommended Prior Learning
Priority given to those who have completed Y12 Technology
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
$120 – special materials/resources additional
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 3.6 - Demonstrate understanding of material development
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 3.20 - Implement complex procedures to integrate parts using resistant materials to make a specified product
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 3.22 - Implement complex procedures to make a specified product using a Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine
NZQA Info
Construction and Mechanical Technologies 3.25 - Demonstrate understanding of a complex machine
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 17
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.