Arts, Materials and Technologies: Indigenous Culture – Stories: Designing Solutions – Year 5

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: What is Product Design?

Lesson 2: Early Indigenous Technology

Lesson 3: Modified indigenous Products

Lesson 4: Modified or New Design?

Lesson 5: Thinking like a Designer

Lesson 6: Materials and Products

Lesson 7: Investigating Issues

Lesson 8: Investigating Issues Cont’d

Lesson 9: Brainstorming Solutions

Lesson 10: Brainstorming Solutions Cont’d

Lesson 11-12: Modelling Products

Lesson 13-14: Evaluating Product Designs

Lesson 15-16: Communicate and Re-design

Lesson 17: Reflection