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).
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Asking questions about natural and managed environments and impacts on them when selecting materials, tools and equipment when designing and making products.
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions (ACTDEP005)
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Exploring opportunities around the school for designing solutions, for example how school play areas could be improved.
Foundation to Year 2 Band Descriptions
Teacher Resources
Food Production
Interactive resource that contains a range of games, activities and information relating to the production, processing, preparation, storage and healthy eating of a wide range of foods.
Natural VS Manmade Resources
Slideshow presentation that investigates the differences in natural and manmade products.
Interactive sorting game in which players have to sort natural and manmade materials.
Sustainability
PDF document detailing the compost heap experiment.
Animated teaching guide for starting a compost program in schools..
Recycling
Video that explains the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
PDF document containing photos from a recycling plant.