Design and Technologies
Year 3 and 4 band description
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK012).
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Identifying areas in Australia and Asia where major food or fibre plants and animals are grown or bred, for example the wheat and sheep belts, areas where sugar cane or rice are grown, northern Australia's beef industry, plantation and native forest areas.
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Plan a sequence of production skills when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP018).
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Identifying the steps in a mass production process.
Resources for the years 3 and 4 Design and Technologies band description above include a unit plan and additonal links to information for teachers.
Unit Plan - Where does my food come from?
In this unit plan students explore the processes in food and fibre production and areas which they are grown or bred in Australia and Asia.
The unit plan includes -
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Links to other relevant curriculum (general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities)
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Opportunities for integration
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Differentiation and adjustments for students
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Links to resources required
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Assessment - formative and summative with task sheet and rubric
Links to Information
The links provided below are additional sources of information in relation to the activities within the unit plan. They can be used to help scaffold students' research and enhance teacher background knowledge.
Technologies used by Aboriginal people
Meat
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Where does our food come from? Lamb (2.5 minutes)
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Where does our food come from? Beef (3 minutes)
Grains
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The Australian Grains Industry - pdf for teachers (includes map of production - wheat, barley, pulses, oilseeds, sorghum, oats, and rice)
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Kids guide to Farming Barley - video from the UK (6.5 minutes)
Vegetables
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Growing and hand picking mushrooms (3.5 minutes)
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Mushroom harvesting machine (3.5 minutes)
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Using robots to harvest lettuce (2.5 minutes)
Image by OCAL (2007)
Image by OCAL (2007)
Image by OCAL (2008)
Image by OCAL (2009)
Avocados
Image by OCAL (2009)
Mangoes
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Harvesting and packing mangoes - a sped up video of the process - a little blurry (1.5 minutes)
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Grading and packing mangoes in Kununurra, Western Australia (6 minutes)
Image by OCAL (2011)
Bananas
Image by OCAL (2007)
Pineapples
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Harvesting pineapples in a farm from Costa Rica (2 minutes)
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Packing pineapples - follow up video from above (3 minutes)
Image by OCAL (2007)
Eggs
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Egg processing - video from the US - degrees Fahrenheit used instead of degrees Celcius (4.5 minutes)
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Grab N' Grade app for iPhones and iPads
Image by OCAL (2007)
Other
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Where does my food come from? - pdf showing the production process of eggs, grains, sugar, dairy, and oranges through a sequence of images and short descriptions underneath each image
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Splash ABC: Teacher resource from paddock to plate - includes videos on growing wheat, rice, and apples; farming animals for milk and honey; and processing rice for the supermarket and making bread from flour
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In addition to the interactive games included within the unit coolfoodplanet.org is another that allows students to explore the paddock to plate journey of food. There are two versions to select from in the home screen - 6-8 year old and 9-12 year old