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• Design and Technologies: Level B achievement standards

  By the end of Level B, students are using some familiar designed solutions appropriately to meet their needs.

  With guidance, students explore designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They experience designed solution ideas and select materials and components based on personal preferences.

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B

• Design and Technologies: Level B description

  In Level B students explore technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs.

  Students examine the characteristics and properties of some technologies from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and fibre production
  • Food specialisations...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• VCDSCD006

  Experience and explore how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet personal needs

  Elaborations

  • communicating a design idea by selecting and indicating materials, for example, identifying what ingredients to put in a sandwich
  • collecting, giving and sharing materials when prompted
  • working with others by helping hold, wait, stick, join and put materials together

  VCDSCD006 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B | Creating Designed Solutions

• VCDSTC005

  Explore the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions in at least one technologies context

  Elaborations

  • beginning to appropriately push or pull and object to make it work, for example, push a toy car or spin a top
  • learning how to care for a plant or animal
  • beginning to use tools and equipment needed to prepare food
  • discovering the characteristics of materials, for example, materials that float or sink

  VCDSTC005 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B | Technologies Contexts

• VCDSTS004

  Explore the use of familiar designed solutions to meet their needs

  Elaborations

  • visiting and using designed solutions, for example, parks, gardens, playgrounds
  • selecting an appropriate tool to meet a need, for example, a spoon to eat or stir a mixture
  • exploring and selecting a product based on personal need,for example, a toy to play with

  VCDSTS004 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level B | Technologies and Society