Red, Orange, Green … Go!
Curriculum Links
Focus questions that can be used to link aspects of this technological development to key ideas within the three strands of the 2007 curriculum statement include:
- Discuss the ‘purposeful’ nature of this development
- Group the attributes of the motor sport complex under ‘physical’ and ‘functional’ headings. Discuss the inter relationships between the two groups
- Identify ‘collaborative’ and ‘interdisciplinary’ aspects of the development and discuss any particularly ‘creative’ aspects of the process as described.
- Identify ‘intended’ and ‘alternative’ functions described in the article. Can you think of other potential alternative functions for the complex?
- How could the fitness for purpose of the complex be determined?
- Can you identify factors that could impact on the ongoing sustainability of this particular technological outcome?
- Describe some of the modelling processes documented in the article. How important has this modelling been in ensuring the fitness for purpose of the final outcome?
- Where has the importance of understanding the relationship between the properties of materials and their performance capability been highlighted in the development process?
- The motor sports complex can be considered as a system composed of a series of interconnected technological sub-systems. Identify some of these systems and detail the inputs, outputs, transformation and control aspects of the systems.
- Outline the initial brief that could have been formulated for the development of the motor sport complex. How does this brief take into account the existing physical and social environment?
- How would the nature of this brief have changed as the development progressed?
- What research, experimentation, analysis, testing and evaluation against the specifications of the brief can you identify in the development process as described?
- How was the planning of the development structured to ensure effective stakeholder feedback and efficient resource management?
