1. Australian Curriculum: Design and Technology
1.1. Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
1.1.1. • 4.2 Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011
1.1.2. • 4.4 Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013)
1.2. Design and Technologies Process and Production Skills
1.2.1. • 4.5 Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the technologies needed to produce designed solutions (ACTDEP014).
1.2.2. • 4.9 Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP018)
1.3. Band 3-4
1.4. Year 4
2. Cross curriculum
2.1. Science
2.1.1. Physical Science
2.1.2. • Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from distance (ACSSU076).
2.2. English
2.3. Literacy
2.3.1. • Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing
2.3.2. • Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating
2.3.3. • Visual Knowledge
3. Focus Questions
3.1. What household materials can you use to make your parachute?
3.2. How will you protect your egg from cracking?
3.3. How will you construct your parachute?
4. Materials required
4.1. Household items
4.1.1. String
4.1.1.1. straws
4.1.2. Raw egg
4.1.2.1. plastic bag, lunch bags or tissue paper
4.1.2.1.1. Scissors
5. Resources
5.1. Interactive Whiteboard
5.2. Marker pens
5.3. Scrap paper
5.4. Youtube clip
5.5. Workbooks
5.6. Appendix
6. Learning Outcomes
6.1. Design parachute using household items
6.1.1. Choose appropriate material
6.1.2. Create a parachute for egg to land safely
7. Lesson steps
7.1. Introduction
7.1.1. • Recap last week’s lesson on parachutes. • Give students a quick quiz, where they write down three points they remembered from last week’s lesson. • Explain to the students that this lesson is continuing on about parachutes. • This lesson they will be using their technological skills and designing a parachute • Students to sit on floor and see the IWB. • Show short clip form You Tube: “How a make a parachute ” • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFooUXyN-pA
7.2. Body
7.2.1. • Place up the IWB the mission for this lesson (Appendix D). • Explain to the students that they are now to design their own parachute using everyday materials. • Students spend the next 25 minutes on this task. They can use iPad and Laptops to research materials and how to make parachutes. • Students will draw their design on paper what their parachute will look like • Students are required to write out the steps required to make their parachute.
7.3. Conclusion
7.3.1. • Discuss with the student the next lesson they will build their parachutes. • Students will have time next lesson to finish designing parachute. • Students will be asked over the next week to collect items from home that they will use to make parachute.