DESIGN AND technologies
rESOURCE: Safety Simone
Created by Rachel KIM
Background Information for Teachers
This is a teaching resource targeted at year 5 students'. Student's will gain knowledge and understanding of how design and technologies, through examining and identifying safety devices that can help alert people of possible dangers in current and future use. This resource intention is to generate, develop, and communicate design ideas of safety alarms to help improve designs for people in different occupations. This resource examines the real-world problem creating a circuit for smoke alarm, alerting people of smoke in the area. The general capabilities that are integrate within this resource include Information and Communication technology, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Literacy general capabilities, and activities facilitates for differentiation.
Prior knowledge
Students have prior understanding of generating, developing and communicating design ideas in previous technology design units. Also, have basic skills and knowledge of technologies in occupations.
Specific content descriptors addressed in this unit:
Year 5 and 6 content descriptors
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025) (ACARA, 2015).
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019) (ACARA, 2015).
Cross curriculum priorities:
Sustainability
OI.3 Sustainable patterns of living rely on the interdependence of healthy social, economic and ecological systems.
Notes for Teachers:
This is a teaching resource targeted at year 5 students'. Student's will gain knowledge and understanding of how design and technologies, through examining and identifying safety devices that can help alert people of possible dangers in current and future use. This resource intention is to generate, develop, and communicate design ideas of safety alarms to help improve designs for people in different occupations. This resource examines the real-world problem creating a circuit for smoke alarm, alerting people of smoke in the area. The general capabilities that are integrate within this resource include Information and Communication technology, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Literacy general capabilities, and activities facilitates for differentiation.
Prior knowledge
Students have prior understanding of generating, developing and communicating design ideas in previous technology design units. Also, have basic skills and knowledge of technologies in occupations.
Specific content descriptors addressed in this unit:
Year 5 and 6 content descriptors
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025) (ACARA, 2015).
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019) (ACARA, 2015).
Cross curriculum priorities:
Sustainability
OI.3 Sustainable patterns of living rely on the interdependence of healthy social, economic and ecological systems.
Notes for Teachers:
- The lesson goes for 70 minutes
- Students have already learnt basics of how to create circuit
- Extra links bellow unit plan can be used to extend or challenge students
- Students can complete task in pairs, groups or individually
- The unit is design for each student to complete the activity in groups but there is option to complete individually
- Activities can be altered depending on the context and abilities
- Extra activities are included in the unit plan
uNIT PLANUnit plan
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sAFETY sIMONE tASKTask sheet
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sAFETY sIMONE LESSON BOOKLETLesson Booklet
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