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Curriculum content descriptions

Use project management processes when working individually and collaboratively to coordinate production of designed solutions (ACTDEP039)

Elaborations
  • explaining and interpreting drawings, planning and production steps needed to produce products, services or environments for specific purposes
  • organising time, evaluating decisions and managing resources to ensure successful project completion and protection of the work space and local environment
  • identifying risks and how to avoid them when planning production
  • investigating the time needed for each step of production
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Cooperation,  Manufacturing processes,  Planning,  Operations management

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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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Kitchen gardens – sustainability action process (Years 7–10)

  • TLF-IDM020970

This resource guides students through an extended school-based or local investigation focussed on kitchen gardens 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 and ...

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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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Benefits of teamwork in robotics

  • TLF-IDM020657

It takes team work to build robots! Oliver talks about how he didn't know too much about building robots when he first joined  3132 'Thunder Down Under', but by being in a team with others learned a lot of skills. He also talks about sharing ideas, and how valuable it is to make and learn from mistakes with others. Why ...

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Building spaghetti bridges

  • TLF-IDM020212

Have you ever tried making a bridge out of dried spaghetti? What about a spaghetti bridge that can support a roadway and small car? Watch as teams of first-year university students reveal and test their designs. How did they decide what kind of bridges to build? Have a go at designing, testing and building your own spaghetti ...

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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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Refugees welcome here

  • TLF-IDM021183

This resource embeds the use of online collaboration tools and 21st century learning skills in a student-centered hands-on project designed to welcome refugees into their community. The syllabus outcomes are aligned to NSW Stage 4 English, Geography or Visual Arts but this could be used with older or younger students by ...

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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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Sustainable Agriculture - regenerating the family farm

  • TLF-IDM020845

This is a unit of work about sustainable farming practices in an Australian agricultural context. The unit uses a case study of a mixed farming operation in southern Victoria. It investigates the steps this farm has made to improve its long term sustainability and the benefits realised in terms of production systems and ...

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From paddock to plate

  • TLF-IDA005763

In this resource, students learn about the steps in the red meat ‘paddock to plate’ supply chain and how technologies can target areas within the chain to improve production. This lesson is part of a sequence of lessons that can be used with this age-group of students. Topics include Managing sustainable red meat production; ...

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Managing Australian red meat

  • TLF-IDA005758

This resource focuses mainly on the Design and Technologies curriculum. Sustainability as a cross-curriculum priority is emphasised. Topics include Managing sustainable red meat production; Feeding strategies and product quality; Management of plants and animals; Where does Australian meat go?; From paddock to plate; and ...

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Augmented Reality Timelapse Artwork with Artivive

  • TLF-IDA003449

In this project, students build their own augmented reality (AR) artwork using free digital tools with Artivive. Students can augment an existing artwork or design their own. This new technology allows artists to create new dimensions of art by linking classical with digital art.

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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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Faith Lutheran College – Timeline

  • TLF-IDA002325

This document presents the milestones in Faith Lutheran College's participation in the Digital Technologies in Focus project.

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