{"id":190,"date":"2022-10-05T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:59:10","slug":"190-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=190","title":{"rendered":"Year 10 &#8211; Electronic Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Length<\/strong>: Single Semester<br><strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\">Technologies Leader<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recommended Background<\/strong><br>No prerequisites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interest in circuitry and experience with soldering would be beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Course Description<\/strong><br>This course will focus on Electrical theory, understanding and practical skills, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Intermediate electronic components<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Schematic symbols and diagrams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronic soldering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Switching, fusing, wire sizing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understanding and recreating common households\u2019 circuits within DC conditions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of Year 10, students will be able to create a design solution based on a student design brief \/ challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note: <\/strong>Students may be required to co-contribute towards the purchase of project materials, dependent on their personal design and choice of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Assessment<\/strong><br>Assessment types include a sequence of practical Skills Tasks, written research Tasks, a Practical Test, and a Major Design Project that is documented through a multimodal Design Folio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Student achievement is assessed according to the Design &amp; Technology Achievement Standards outlined in the Australian Curriculum, with A-E Grades used for reporting.<br><br><strong>Leads To<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=305\">Stage 1 Electronic Engineering<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length: Single SemesterContact:\u00a0Technologies Leader Recommended BackgroundNo prerequisites. An interest in circuitry and experience with soldering would be beneficial. Course DescriptionThis course will focus on Electrical theory, understanding and practical skills, including: By the end of Year 10, students will be able to create a design solution based on a student design brief \/ challenge. Note: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/1583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}