Length: Single Semester
Contact: Technologies Leader

Course Description
In this Year 9 course students develop their understanding of kitchen safety, hygiene, nutrition, technology, food preparation and presentation. This course encourages students to design and create food products within a design brief. Students develop skills in producing high quality food products for a purpose.

This course encourages collaboration within the class when designing menu items and requires students to consider the issues and factors involved in producing food.

Assessment
Assessment types include a sequence of practical Skills Tasks, written research Tasks, and a Major Design Project that is documented through a multimodal Design Folio.

Student achievement is assessed according to the Design & Technology Achievement Standards outlined in the Australian Curriculum, with A-E Grades used for reporting.

Leads To
Year 10 Food Technology