Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Technologies / Design and Technologies / Creating Designed Solutions
Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely (VCDSCD020)
Light and Sound Discovery Preview Unit |
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Building Instruments: Woodwind
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn how sounds are made as air move around objects as they use straws to make a pan flute. |
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Building Instruments: Making a New Instrument
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will discover how to make sounds by experimenting with different materials. |
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Puppet Production: Building a Theatre
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in group to build a cardboard box puppet theatre. |
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Puppet Production: Shadows of a Story
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will create shadow puppets for their production. |
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Building Instruments: Percussion
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn how different objects move and make sounds depending on their size and shape as they build maracas. |
Celebrating Differences Social Justice Preview Unit |
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Italy: Making Pasta
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will be immersed into the Italian culture as they make pasta. |
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China: Making a Lantern
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about the Chinese culture as they make a paper lantern. |
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Nigeria: Playing Ayo
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will be immersed in Nigerian culture as they play a traditional game. |
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Nigeria: Making a Drum
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will learn about Nigerian culture as they make paper cup drums. |
Robot Buddies Creativity Preview Unit |
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Analysing Materials
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will analyse a craft material and consider how it could be used to make something. |
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Pretest
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will complete a pretest by using craft materials to build a model of a piece of food. |
Tip Toe Through Our World Sustainability Preview Unit |
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Making A Gift: Reusing Resources
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will reuse objects from home to make a gift. |
Places and Spaces Community Preview Unit |
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Our Craft Community: Building Our Models
· Learning Opportunities
Your students will work in groups to construct models of three buildings that they have designed for their precinct. |
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Introducing the Unit
· Pretesting and Familiarisation
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence. |
Together Through Toys 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. |