Technologies and Society - Ways products, services and environments are designed to meet communit...

1. Process & Production Skills

1.1. Develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using annotated drawings and appropriate technical terms

1.2. Work independently, or collaboratively when required, to plan, safely create and communicate ideas and information for solutions

1.3. Select, and safely use, appropriate components and equipment to make solutions

1.3.1. Safety Considerations of Teacher. Resources used in design process (skewers, hot glue etc)

2. Local Relevant Issues

2.1. Due to Covid-19, there has been a limited importation of products manufactured internationally, this now raises the importance of production locally and nationally

2.2. Maintaining a sustainable lifestyle is more important now than ever, with many people quarantined at home under lock down laws put in place by the government

2.3. Recycling in Perth is still recovering from the fire that destroyed the Cleanaway facility in 2019, hence the importance of repurposing recyclable materials

3. Digital Technology Links

3.1. Use of PowerPoint during summative assessment presentation.

3.2. Collect and present different types of data for a specific purpose using software (ACTDIP009)

3.3. Use of Microsoft Sway to present final product

3.4. Use of iPad cameras to take photos of final product

4. Theme/Design idea - Using design thinking to invent creative solutions for sustainable children's toys that are practical, entertaining and aesthetically pleasing.

4.1. Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability in technologies.

5. General Capabilities for D&T

5.1. Numeracy

5.2. Critical and Creative Thinking

5.3. Ethical Understaning

5.3.1. Links to importance of designing sustainable technologies for the future.

5.4. Personal & Social Capability

5.5. Literacy

6. Cross Curriculum Integration

6.1. Literacy - Procedural writing: How to create a toy car using sustainable and recyclable materials.

6.2. Literacy - Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations incorporating learned content and taking into account the particular purposes and audiences (ACELY1689).

6.3. Science - Investigation of properties and materials and how they affect forces such as speed. Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)

6.4. HASS - The natural resources (e.g. water, timber, minerals) provided by the environment and different views on how they can be used sustainably (ACHASSK090)

6.5. HASS - Reflect on learning, identify new understandings and act on findings in different ways (e.g. complete a KWL chart, propose action in response to new knowledge) (WAHASS39)

7. Design Technology Link

7.1. Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs