Features of Progression

This site describes how pupils might make progress in designing and making electronic products by listing a series of statements for each of the following features:

• Modelling and Simulating Circuits
• Systems Thinking
• Programming Systems
• Understanding Technical Function
  • Sensing and Measuring
  • Communicating
  • Controlling Power
• Producing

Each feature is described at four levels of demand:

• Introducing
• Developing
• Enhancing
• Advancing

The statements for using scientific and mathematical concepts are integrated into the other statements. Note that in many cases pupils will be between these levels of demand in their progress so it is important to see these statements as indicators of difficulty and teaching sequence. It is not useful to see a hard boundary between these levels of demand. One way of looking at this is to envisage a continum of difficulty which can be described as a spectrum of colours beginning with red and finishing with violet as indicated below.