AC9TDE4K03 – Year 3 Technologies: Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

• • researching food and fibre production techniques and technologies developed by First Nations Australians, such as burning, tilling, planting, transplanting, watering, irrigating, weeding, thinning, cropping, storing and trading food
• • describing tools, equipment and procedures to improve plant and animal production, for example when growing vegetables in the school garden and producing environments such as a glasshouse (protected cropping) or animal housing including safe chicken shelters
• • comparing farming methods for food in Australia and a country in Asia, for example the use of different types of plants and animals and how diverse technologies are used to produce them
• • researching how animal fibres (for example wool, alpaca) and plant fibres (for example timber, cotton, bamboo) are produced in Australia, for example how production of plantation timbers may be different from bamboo production

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: