Design Stage: Going Green Unit

In this stage you will generate several feasible designs for your product that meet the design specification and then evaluate each design against the design specification. After all the good quality designs have been generated, one design should selected, justify your choice and evaluate this in detail against the design specification.

The designs can be drawn on paper or designed using an appropriate software but submitted in hardcopy and softtcopy where possible.


Note below the feedback extract from the moderation report on Design Stage

The comparatively good students produced very clear and well-annotated design proposals. However, overall students did not show a wide range of ideas, which is necessary to reach the higher band levels. Again, ideas were mostly pencil drawings and may have been improved by including samples from various sources that could be used as part of their product/solution.

At the design stage, student are encouraged to develop their initial drawings with clips or screen shots from sources that may visually enhance their ideas/solutions.

Levels	Task Specific Descriptor
0	The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given below.
1-2	The student generates one design, and makes some attempt to justify this against the design specification.
3-4	The student generates a few designs, justifying the choice of one design and fully evaluating this against the design specification.
5-6	The student generates a range of feasible designs, each evaluated against the design specification. The student justifies the chosen design and evaluates it fully and critically against the design specification.