What might a year 3 Technologies Overview look like?
Year 3 Term 1
Design and Digital Technologies
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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 (ACTDEK010)
Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013) |
Bee Bots
Forces and Materials |
Design and Digital Technologies
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Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)
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 (ACTDEP014) Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to make designed solutions (ACTDEP016) Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment (ACTDEP017) Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP018) |
Digital Technologies
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Work with others to plan the creation and communication of ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013)
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Year 3 Term 2
Milk Production
Food and Fibre |
Design and Digital Technologies
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Investigate food and fibre production
and food technologies used in modern and traditional
societies (ACTDEK012)
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Digital Technologies
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Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve them (ACTDIP010)
Implement simple digital solutions as visual programs with algorithms involving branching (decisions) and user input (ACTDIP011) |
Digital Technologies
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Work with others to plan the creation and communication of ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013)
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Year 3 Term 3
Digital Technologies
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Explain how developed solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs, and envisage new ways of using them (ACTDIP012)
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Digital Technologies
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Work with others to plan the creation and communication of ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols (ACTDIP013)
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Design & Digital Technologies
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Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product
or system (ACTDEK011)
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Year 3 Term 4
Design & Digital Technologies
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Investigate food and fibre production
and food technologies used in modern and traditional
societies (ACTDEK012)
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Digital Technologies
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Explore and use a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data (ACTDIK007)
Recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented in different ways (ACTDIK008) Collect, access and present different types of data using simple software to create information and solve problems (ACTDIP009) |