OVERVIEW
This resource aims to meet the below designated content descriptions and elaborations
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions (ACTDEP007)
Elaborations
This resource aims to meet the below complimentary content descriptions and elaborations
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (ACTDEK001)
Elaborations
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions (ACTDEP007)
Elaborations
- using and playing with everyday materials in new ways or re-using discarded materials, for example using discarded materials to design, make and model a constructed environment
- learning and safely practising a range of technical skills using tools and equipment, for example joining techniques when making products, watering and mulching gardens, preparing food, using software to design an environment
- assembling components of systems and checking they function as planned, for example when making a musical instrument
This resource aims to meet the below complimentary content descriptions and elaborations
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (ACTDEK001)
Elaborations
- exploring how local products, services and environments are designed by people for a purpose and meet social needs, for example the range of shelters provided for the public in a local community; graphical displays to market school and community events
- asking questions about natural and managed environments and impacts on them when selecting materials, tools and equipment when designing and making products, for example harvesting products from the school garden and using recycled clothing
- making design decisions based on personal and family needs, for example downloading and comparing recipes to suit available cooking facilities such as cooking in the bush compared to cooking in a kitchen
- exploring and critiquing products, services and environments for their impact on sustainability, for example the environmental risks and benefits of a system for organically or hydroponically growing a vegetable crop from seed or seedling to harvest