Design & Technologies: Project-based learning – Year 2

Our Project-based learning through Design and Technologies series is designed to help teach students the content, skills and processes outlined by the Australian Curriculum Design and Technologies learning area. Through hands-on, real-world projects, four themes are covered - food and cooking, clothing and textiles, building and construction, and technological advancements. Get your students engaged and develop their process and production skills.

Year 2 features:

• Contains a variety of real-life projects across the units of Food and cooking, Clothing and textiles, Building and construction and Technological advancements.
• Projects include preserving strawberries; and designing and creating a costume for a literary character, a simple musical instrument and a working waterwheel.
• The lessons and projects are designed to introduce young students to the design process and develop their process and production skills.

Australian Curriculum links:

• Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (ACTDEK001) 
• Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in products (ACTDEK002) 
• Explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter and how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating (ACTDEK003) 
• Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions (ACTDEK004) 
• Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions (ACTDEP005) 
• Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling (ACTDEP006) 
• Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions (ACTDEP007) 
• Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment (ACTDEP008) 
• Sequence steps for making designed solutions and working collaboratively (ACTDEP009)