Content descriptions
Technologies and Society
Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (VCDSTS013)
- Identifying ways that community vegetable gardens may meet local needs
- Identifying dishes that include rice as the main ingredient
- Identifying how playgrounds are designed to be used by a range of children
- Identifying ways that gardens can be designed to minimise the use of water
Technologies Contexts: Engineering principles and systems
Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in designed solutions (VCDSTC014)
- Observing how a Slinky (metal spring toy) moves
- Playing with a seesaw to experience the principles of push and pull
- Using magnets and paper clips to demonstrate the principles of push and pull
- Observing how supermarkets use conveyor belts to move products short distances