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• Technologies | Design and Technologies: Resources

  A range of resources to assist with implementing the Victorian Curriculum F – 10 are available. Please visit the following websites to access these resources (links open in a new window):

  • Victorian Curriculum F – 10 Resources and Support (VCAA)

  Includes general advice and information...

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• 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

• VCDSCD019

  Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling

  Elaborations

  • comparing and contrasting features of existing products to provide new ideas, for example exploring toys with several movable parts with the view to designing and making a simple puppet with one movable part
  • communicating design ideas by modelling, and producing and labelling two-dimensional drawings using a range of technologies to show different views (top view and side view), for example a new environment such as a cubby house or animal shelter
  • identifying one common testing method, and recording results, for example taste-testing comparisons of a food product and recording results in a digital form
  • describing how design ideas meet the needs of those who will use the solution

  VCDSCD019 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Generating

• Technologies | Design and Technologies: Learning in Design and Technologies

  In Design and Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of creating designed solutions for personal, domestic and global settings for a sustainable future. For younger children, this usually involves personal and family settings, where there is an immediate, direct and tangible...

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