Design & Technologies: Project-based learning – Year 6

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 6 Features: 

• Contains a variety of real-life projects across the units of Food and cooking, Clothing and textiles, Building and construction and Technological advancements.
• Enable students to use innovative thinking as they collaborate to design and create solutions to modern-day scenarios.

Australian Curriculum links:

• 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) 
• Investigate how electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system (ACTDEK020) 
• Investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments and prepared to enable people to grow and be healthy (ACTDEK021) 
• Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (ACTDEK023) 
• Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (ACTDEP024) 
• Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025) 
• Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions (ACTDEP026) 
• Negotiate criteria for success that include sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (ACTDEP027) 
• Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP028)