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Curriculum content descriptions

Select and justify choices of materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to effectively and safely make designed solutions (ACTDEP037)

Elaborations
  • developing technical production skills and safe working practices with independence to produce quality solutions designed for sustainability
  • practising techniques to improve expertise, for example handling animals, cutting and joining materials
  • identifying and managing risks in the development of various projects, for example working safely, responsibly, cooperatively and ethically on design projects, assessing uncertainty and risk in relation to long-term health and environmental impacts
  • developing innovative ways of manipulating technologies using traditional and contemporary materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and considering alternatives including emerging technologies that could be substituted to reduce waste or time
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • ICT capability Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability
ScOT terms

Materials,  Design,  Tools,  Work health and safety,  Procedures

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Drone search lesson

  • TLF-IDM025350

This lesson plan introduces students to the practice and applications of using drones to take aerial photographs. Students learn safety procedures regarding the use of drones then capture images of simulated disaster areas. Students observe the use of drones in science and technology-based endeavours and suggest new applications ...

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Waste and materials – sustainability action process (Years 7–10)

  • TLF-IDM020971

This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on waste and materials using the five-step sustainability action process. The resource supports the investigation of a real-world issue or problem. Students develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate ...

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Education - Return to 1616 Ecological Restoration Project

  • TLF-IDA002754

This is a comprehensive education package based on of the world's most exciting ecological restoration projects that is happening right now in Western Australia! It features interactive virtual tours, 3D skulls, videos, real-action inquiry projects, research projects, native animal educational card games and activities, ...

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Interactive

Design thinking across the curriculum

  • TLF-IDM025436

This cross-curriculum resource is designed to introduce Stage 2, 3 and 4 students to the design thinking process through a series of videos and interactive activities. This resource is also downloadable as a SCORM file: the downloaded version will only work if you upload it to a webserver, such as Moodle or Canvas.

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Interactive

Thermal comfort – sustainability action process (Years 7–10)

  • TLF-IDM020885

This thermal comfort learning resource will guide students through an extended school based investigation. Students will develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and reflect on their success and their learning.

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Creating a worm farm

  • TLF-IDA002844

Food and gardening scraps thrown into household bins becomes landfill. When food waste breaks down in landfill, it emits greenhouse gases including methane gas which traps heat in our atmosphere. Diverting this organic waste from landfill and into a worm farm or composting system is great for your garden and for our planet. ...

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PRIMED Technologies - Year 8

  • TLF-IDA005661

This set of learning activities challenges students to explore the supply chain for sustainable production of food and fibre products. Students explore how consumer buying decisions and opinion can influence components of the supply chain and design products using locally produced commodities and explore the journey of ...

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Flight Club: Teacher Resource Book

  • TLF-IDA005165

This series of activities investigates how members of the animal kingdom achieve flight, and how biological understandings can be combined with design and technologies concepts to support and extend student engagement with science.

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Earthquake-Resistant Building Challenge

  • TLF-IDA005159

In this activity, students are the engineers tasked with designing and building a three story building that can resist large earthquakes. They will follow the design-thinking framework to investigate the problem, design an earthquake-resistant building, create and test the building, and then refine their designs to withstand ...

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Construct a lifting machine - teacher resource kit

  • TLF-IDA004947

This activity kit challenges students to design and create a machine to lift a load to a height of at least 50cm. Activities are guided by the design thinking process, and scaffold students to undertake research on the applications of various simple machines, and the combinations of simple machines they might use to help ...

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Biomimicry glider

  • TLF-IDA004618

In this lesson students explore the dynamics of flight by examining animal adaptations and apply their learning to think like an aeronautical engineer and design their own glider

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Thinking Outside the Box - the Sustainable Seating Project

  • TLF-IDA004534

In this unit of work, students investigate the properties and sustainability of materials and explore the importance of sustainable forest management to produce wood pulp for the manufacture of cardboard. Using ForestVR 360 videos, students go on virtual excursions to an Australian pine plantation and paper mill to experience ...

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Sandcastle ratios

  • TLF-IDA004621

In this lesson students think like geotechnical engineers, exploring the properties of sand and the ways in which those properties can be used in building and construction.

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Balancing Mobiles

  • TLF-IDA003780

In this teaching activity, students will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile and explore suspended and standing mobiles by sculptor Alexander Calder.

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