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AC9TDE8K04: Year 7 Technologies Content Descriptor – Technologies context: Food and fibre production
AC9TDE8K04 Year 7 Technologies

AC9TDE8K04 – Year 7 Technologies: Technologies context: Food and fibre production

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Technologies context: Food and fibre production

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

Content Descriptor

analyse how food and fibre are produced in managed environments and how these can become sustainable

Elaborations

  • • analysing traditional First Nations Australians’ food and fibre sources for potential species that offer benefits in sustainability, such as conserving water use and resources needed for processing
  • • comparing land and water management methods in contemporary Australian food and fibre production with a country in Asia, for example comparing the use of robotics, drones, global positioning system (GPS) technologies, minimum-tillage cropping, water-efficient irrigation and smart farm monitoring and controlling systems for increasing efficiency of farm operations and crop protection, and the impact of cash crops versus staples on social sustainability
  • • investigating how animal and plant crops are grown and the ethical and sustainable techniques used to increase food production, for example comparing the use of herbicides or medicines when producing food and fibre products and recognising the need to increase food production using cost-efficient, ethical and sustainable production techniques
  • • outlining physical and chemical characteristics of soil and their effects on plant growth when producing food and fibre products, for example comparing the effect on soil characteristics of different farming practices
  • • investigating different animal nutrition strategies such as grazing and supplementary feeding, and their effects on quality when producing food and fibre products, for example meat tenderness, wool-fibre diameter (micron), milk fat and protein content
  • • recognising the importance of food and fibre production to Australia’s food security and economy, including exports and imports to and from countries across Asia, for example exports of Tasmanian Candy Abalone (wild-caught dried abalone)

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASTECTDEY78
Year 7 Technologies Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools. They independently and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely produce designed solutions.