Curriculum

Year Levels: 5/6

Strand/Substrand: Design Technologies - Food Specialisations

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Technologies Contexts

Explain how the properties of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating VC2TDE6C03

- Determining, using the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, what goes into a healthy diet and considering a wide range of options.

- Investigating how different foods require different preparation methods.

- Experimenting with ingredients and techniques to design and make food products or meals for selected groups for healthy eating.

 

Creating Designed Solutions

Explore needs or opportunities for designing and testing materials, components, tools and processes needed to create designed solutions VC2TDE4D01

- Examining the production of local products and examples for healthiness to enhance their own design ideas.

Generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, using manual and digital tools VC2TDE4D02

- Communicating design ideas using annotated diagrams.

- Developing design criteria that consider universal design principles to address social sustainability.

Use given or predetermined design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions VC2TDE4D04

- Reflecting on how well their designed solution meets design criteria, such as ensuring the safety and wellbeing of end users and meeting the needs of communities or different cultures

Theories

- Constructivism: Each lesson builds on students experiences, and they are prompted at several points to share and compare their findings
- Inquiry Based Learning: Students are prompted to research and develop solutions to a central guiding question. They discover and develop their own solutions to the problem.
- Blooms Taxonomy: Each activity requires a mix of lower and higher order skills to complete. Remembering and Understanding underpins the earlier analysis of the Australian guide to healthy eating; Creating and Evaluating is essential later on in the unit.

- Differentiation: Easier lower order research questions are mixed with harder higher order research questions. Each lesson also includes an extension task for early finishers.

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