Design Technologies Resource
Resource Description:
This resource is a unit overview that aims to teach year 2 semester 2 students about how technologies use forces to create movement. To achieve this the activities conducted through lessons one to four provide students with the knowledge on how to plan out their project and develop their design. Specifically this will be developed through introducing students to the concepts of movement and force and then providing experiences whereby students experiment and investigate these. Subsequently how to develop a design to meet a particular need or opportunity will be taught to the students through an experience where a paper plane is developed and created collaboratively. Finally in lesson five students use the content and processes taught to independently investigate how forces create movement in an object.
Specifically this resource has been designed to teach the following descriptors:
Design Technologies Knowledge and Understanding:
How technologies use forces to create movement in products (ACTDEK002).-
Elaboration: Selecting materials to demonstrate how material properties are appropriate for particular designed solutions. For example materials that enable sliding or floating.
Students should be able to:
Design and Technologies Processes and productions skills:
Explore needs or opportunities needed to realise designed solutions (ACTDEP005)
Elaboration: Identifying, gathering and playing materials, components, tools and equipment to generate personal ideas for example when designing and making clothes, toys and shelters.
About this Resource:
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This resource is a unit overview that provides a sequence of activities that can be used with students to develop the aforementioned content descriptors. What is more it includes assessable items and a rubric that can be used to test the students on their comprehension of the unit and its concepts.
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This unit has been developed to run for approimately five weeks, with one hour lesson conducted per week.
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