AC9TDE2K02 – Year 1 Technologies: Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 investigating First Nations Australians’ instructive toys and how such toys are designed and made to produce movement, for example propeller toys made from pandanus across northern Australia
• 2 selecting materials to show how material properties are appropriate for particular designed solutions, for example materials that enable sliding, floating or flying
• 3 exploring how to manipulate materials using a range of tools, equipment and techniques to create movement, for example when constructing a toy boat that floats or a kite that flies
• 4 exploring a system such as a marionette or Indonesian wayang kulit shadow puppet to see that by combining materials with forces movement can be created
• 5 testing materials to see how they affect movement and speed, for example the movement of a wheeled toy on different surfaces such as timber, carpet, rubber and plastic

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