Arts, Material and Technologies 

Year 1 – Exploring Design
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Teaching Resources

Lessons
Teaching Guides
Student Workbooks

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.
Assessment 
  • Knowledge and Understanding Test (Lesson 18)
  • Assessment Task: Art Exhibition (Lessons 15–17)
Complete This Unit 
Lesson 1: What is Design Technology?
Lesson 2: Product Designs
Lesson 3: Indigenous Technologies
Lesson 4: Modified Products
Lesson 5: New or Modified Products
Lesson 6: Thinking Like a Designer
Lesson 7: Problem 1: Investigate and Brainstorm
Lesson 8: Problem 1: Make and Test
Lesson 9: Problem 1: Reflect and Share
Lesson 10: Materials and Products
Lesson 11: Problem 2: Investigate and Brainstorm
Lesson 12: Problem 2: Model and Test
Lesson 13: Problem 2: Sharing results
Lesson 14: Forces and products
Lesson 15: Problem 2: Investigate and Brainstorm
Lesson 16: Group Art
Lesson 17: Exhibition Preparation

Lesson objective

Success criteria

I do

We do

You do

Edit: peer feedback

Effective feedback

Reflect

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