Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies / Technologies and Society

Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (VCDSTS013)

Places and Spaces Community Preview Unit

Sustainable Features · Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about ways that we can build places that are better for the environment.
Our Craft Community: Planning Our Precinct · Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in groups to plan a new precinct for their community.
Our Craft Community: Preparing to Share · Learning Opportunities
Your students will develop questions about their precinct in preparing for a visit from older students.
Our Craft Community: Sharing Our Models · Demonstration of Understanding
Your students will share their models with older students and answer questions about how they built their models.

Robot Buddies Creativity Preview Unit

New Solutions to Old Problems · Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in groups to consider new solutions to old problems.
Immersion · Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will be immersed into robots and consider if robots can think.
Designed to Solve a Problem · Learning Opportunities
Your students will consider the problem a classroom object was designed to solve.

Together Through Toys 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.

Playing in the Park 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.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 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.