Design & Technologies: Project-based learning – Year 3

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 3 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 designing and creating an edible garden, an upcycled textile product, an multistory earthquake-resistant building and a powered vehicle.
• Lessons and projects help develop team-building skills and promote students' confidence in applying the design process.

Australian Curriculum links:

• Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs (ACTDEK10) 
• Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK11) 
• Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK12) 
• Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK13) 
• Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to produce designed solutions (ACTDEP14) 
• Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP15) 
• Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions (ACTDEP16) 
• Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment (ACTDEP17) 
• Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP18)