Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies / Creating Designed Solutions
Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely (VCDSCD020)
The Bridge and Beyond Discovery Preview Unit |
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Building with Aluminium Foil
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of aluminium foil as they build a boat for their billy goats. |
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Experimenting with Rolling
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will experiment with rolling as they test which material makes the best ball. |
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Building with Wood
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of wood as they build with icy-pole sticks. |
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Paper Corrugations
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover the properties of paper as they build a paper and cardboard bridge. |
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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. |
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Building a Bridge
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will build a bridge that can carry their billy goat across an A3 piece of paper. |
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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 |
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Butterflies: Colourful Camouflage
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of a butterfly as they paint a butterfly. |
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Shark Shapes
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the features of sharks as they create a paper plate shark out of shapes. |
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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 |
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Making My Puppet
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will design and construct a puppet of their fairy tale character. |
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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. |
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Introducing the Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn about this unit as they make a puppet depicting themselves. |
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Habit of Mind: Creating, Imagining and Innovating
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will consider how they can turn a 'mistake' into something beautiful. |
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Using Our Imagination
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will practise using their imagination at they pretend to be a fairy tale character. |
In Our Community Community Preview Unit |
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Introducing the Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Assessment
· Synthesis Phase
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research. |