Arts, Materials and Technologies: Indigenous Culture – Stories: Creative Designers – Year 3

Teaching resources

Lessons
Teaching Guide
Student Workbook

Overview

Students investigate the technological change of products over time. They identify and describe the purpose, features and uses of traditional and modern technologies. Through investigation, students recognise different properties of materials and how they are joined. They identify that forces create movement in products. Following the design process, students meet the identified needs of users through the creation and modification of products.

Learning objectives

In Lessons 1 to 17, students learn to:

1. identify the five steps to designing a new product
2. evaluate a product design
3. identify early indigenous technologies
4. describe how early indigenous technologies met needs
5. recognise modified products
6. identify whether products are new or modified
7. design or modify a product to meet a need
8. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
9. make and test design solutions
10. reflect on and communicate the results of product tests
11. investigate materials and joins
12. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
13. model and test design solutions
14. communicate the results of design solution tests
15. identify that forces create movement in products
16. investigate a problem and brainstorm solutions
17. model and test design solutions
18. communicate the results of design solution tests.

Complete This Unit 

Lesson 1: Famous Designers

Lesson 2: Design Features

Lesson 3: Properties of Materials

Lesson 4: Indigenous Technology

Lesson 5-6: Investigators

Lesson 7: Brainstorming Ideas

Lesson 8: Brainstorming Ideas cont’d

Lesson 9-10: Production Plan

Lesson 11: Safety

Lesson 12-14: Making Designs

Lesson 15: Testing

Lesson 16: Reflecting

Lesson 17: Sharing