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Design and Technologies / Year 1 and 2 / Knowledge and understanding / Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations
Curriculum content descriptions
explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products (AC9TDE2K02)
Elaborations
- investigating First Nations Australians’ instructive toys and how such toys are designed and made to produce movement, for example propeller toys made from pandanus across northern Australia
- selecting materials to show how material properties are appropriate for particular designed solutions, for example materials that enable sliding, floating or flying
- exploring how to manipulate materials using a range of tools, equipment and techniques to create movement, for example when constructing a toy boat that floats or a kite that flies
- exploring a system such as a marionette or Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppet to see that by combining materials with forces movement can be created
- testing materials to see how they affect movement and speed, for example the movement of a wheeled toy on different surfaces such as timber, carpet, rubber and plastic
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Engineering, Mechanical energy