Year 3 Technologies ASTECTDEY34

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 3 Technologies by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

By the end of Year 4 students describe how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of people, including sustainability. For each of the 2 prescribed technologies contexts they describe the features and uses of technologies and create designed solutions. Students select design ideas against design criteria. They communicate design ideas using models and drawings including annotations and symbols. Students plan and sequence steps and use technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:

Knowledge and understanding

Technologies and society

AC9TDE4K01 examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations

AC9TDE4K02 describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system

Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations

AC9TDE4K03 describe the ways of producing food and fibre AC9TDE4K04 describe the ways food can be selected and prepared for healthy eating

Processes and production skills

Investigating and defining

AC9TDE4P01 explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions

Generating and designing

AC9TDE4P02 generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools

Producing and implementing

AC9TDE4P03 select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions

Evaluating

AC9TDE4P04 use given or co-developed design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions

Collaborating and managing

AC9TDE4P05 sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions

At a Glance

Strand	Substrand	CDs	Elaborations
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies and society	1	6
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations	1	5
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations	2	9
Processes and production skills	Investigating and defining	1	5
Processes and production skills	Generating and designing	1	4
Processes and production skills	Producing and implementing	1	5
Processes and production skills	Evaluating	1	4
Processes and production skills	Collaborating and managing	1	3
Total		9	41

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 3 Design Technologies?

By the end of Year 4 students describe how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of people, including sustainability. For each of the 2 prescribed technologies contexts they describe the features and uses of technologies and create designed solutions. Students select design ideas against design criteria. They communicate design ideas using models and drawings including annotations and symbols. Students plan and sequence steps and use technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.

How many Content Descriptors support this standard?

9 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Knowledge and understanding: 1, Knowledge and understanding: 1, Knowledge and understanding: 2, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1).

How does this compare to Year 1?

The Year 1 Design Technologies standard (ASTECTDEY12) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 3 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 1.

Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?

Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.