Teaching Technologies
Design and Technologies Year 4
This resource 'Don't Waste It' is designed for students to enhance their learning through inquiry, in collaboration with their peers. Students will research the role of people in design and technologies, with a particular focus on the Australian farmer, agriculture, and sustainability. The students will transform their knowledge and understanding of this content, and apply critical and creative thinking skills to collaboratively design a sustainable waste solution to benefit the environment and the Australian dairy farmers.
This particular unit of work will assist in the student's development of some key curriculum ideas from the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technoloies strand. The students will use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce an appropriate sustainable waste solution where students are seen to be taking action to create preferred futures (ACARA, 2015).
Don't Waste It!
'Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions for authentic needs and opportunities' (ACARA, 2015)
This particular unit of work will contain distinct pedagogies related to Design Technologies to assist student's engagement and understanding. You can learn more about them below.
This resource has been adapted to meet the Australian Curriculum Design and Technologies Strand for Year 4.
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