Demonstrate understanding of sustainable practices in the development of a Materials and Processing Technology design
You need to show you understand how to use sustainable practices (like choosing eco-friendly materials, reducing waste, and respecting the environment) when you're designing and developing something made from materials and processing technology. This means showing your design work, researching sustainability options, thinking about how your choices affect the environment (kaitiakitanga), and explaining why you made the decisions you did.
You describe your design, identify the end user, show you researched sustainable practices, list your material choices (often scrap or upcycled), mention how you used equipment, and show feedback from at least two stakeholders.
You explain how your research into sustainability influenced your specific material choices, show how kaitiakitanga shaped your decisions, detail how you minimised waste through techniques like nesting or reusing offcuts, and explain how stakeholder feedback led you to refine your sustainable approach throughout your project.
You evaluate different material options and justify your choices even when they're less sustainable, place your design in a broader global sustainability context, demonstrate how kaitiakitanga connects to both environment and people, minimise or eliminate project waste, and show iterative thinking with multiple viewpoints considered throughout.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.