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Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions (ACTDEP007)

The Bridge and Beyond Discovery Preview Unit

Building with Aluminium Foil · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of aluminium foil as they build a boat for their billy goats.
Experimenting with Rolling · Learning Opportunities
Your students will experiment with rolling as they test which material makes the best ball.
Building with Wood · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of wood as they build with icy-pole sticks.
Paper Corrugations · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of paper as they build a paper and cardboard bridge.
Experimenting with Colour and Texture · Learning Opportunities
Your students will experiment with colour and texture to make a piece of paper look like a river.
Building a Bridge · Learning Opportunities
Your students will build a bridge that can carry their billy goat across an A3 piece of paper.
Modelling a Goat · Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of modelling clay or similar as they create a model of a billy goat.

Great and Small Connections Preview Unit

Butterflies: Colourful Camouflage · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of a butterfly as they paint a butterfly.
Shark Shapes · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of sharks as they create a paper plate shark out of shapes.
Echidnas and Other Australian Animals · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider how they can stay safe while they learn about the Echidna.

Topsy Turvy Tales Creativity Preview Unit

Building a Puppet Theatre · Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in groups to build a puppet theatre.
Making My Puppet · Learning Opportunities
Your students will design and construct a puppet of their fairy tale character.
Creating Sounds for My Story · Learning Opportunities
Your students will think of sounds that they can make to help tell a fairy tale.
Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will demonstrate what they know about planning, creative thinking, and using different materials as they create something using craft materials.
Introducing the Unit · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn about this unit as they make a puppet depicting themselves.
Habit of Mind: Creating, Imagining and Innovating · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider how they can turn a 'mistake' into something beautiful.

In Our Community Community Preview Unit

Introducing the Unit · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Me: Box Creation · Learning Opportunities
Your students will use recycled packaging and craft materials to build a box creation of themselves.

Fairness and Friendship Social Justice Preview Unit

Introducing the Unit · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.

A Place to Call Home Question-Based Investigations Preview Unit

Assessment · Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research.