AC9TDEFK01 Foundation Technologies

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people

Elaborations

• 1

  identifying how First Nations Australians have long designed and produced domestic items including clothing, tools and shelter, for example the Lamalama Peoples of the eastern Cape York Peninsula weave the reddish coloured fibres from Acacia latifolia alternately with white coloured fibres from Brachychiton diversifolium to produce a striped woven bag

• 2 exploring how local delivery services meet different needs of people, for example describing how gift packages can be sent to and from people who live in different locations and how online shopping items arrive at a person’s home
• 3 exploring how an environment such as a local playground may have shade structures to protect users and be designed to allow access for all
• 4 describing how community gardens, public swimming pools and parks are designed to help people stay healthy
• 5 asking questions about the design of products from the local store, for example why certain packaging materials might have been selected, and how people design the text and images on the packaging to attract people’s attention

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