You must use the materials provided by your teacher. By the end of the 10-week unit you will present and justify your plans and your design will be placed around Farmer Fred’s crops. 

 

Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions (ACTDEK004)

 

Exploring materials, components, tools and equipment through play to discover potential uses when making products or modeling services and environments, for example when designing and making clothes, toys and shelters.  

Critical and Creative Thinking

Explore needs or opportunities for designing and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions (ACTDEP005).

 

Identifying, gathering and playing with materials, components, tools and equipment to generate personal design ideas, for example designing a greeting card for a friend.

 

Literacy

Critical and Creative Thinking

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability. 

 

Measure and compare the lengths and capabilities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units (ACMMG019).

 

Understanding that in order to compare objects, the unit of measurement must be the same size.

 

Critical and Creative Thinking

Numeracy

 

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions (ACELY1656).

 

Participating in informal and structured class, group and pair discussions about content areas topics, ideas and information. 

 

Personal and Social Capability 

Critical and Creative Thinking

Literacy

After reviewing and engaging in formal discussions with Brittany, it was evident that we have both gained an understanding of the ten lessons created for this unit. We both agreed that the curriculum areas that were identified were appropriate however, the lessons would have been stronger, if we connected this unit to Science: The inquiry stage. 

Children would have had the opportunity to engage through the different processes that related and connected to science. These include Questioning and Predicting, Planning and Conducting, Processing and Analysing data and Information, Evaluating and Communicating.

We also identified that gradually introducing the lessons would support the children’s learning and inquiry process, rather than starting the lessons directly about scarecrows. After further discussion, it was highlighted that towards the end, the lessons needed to run for a greater period of time, in order to successfully develop the scarecrow and support the children's thinking and learning process.  

We both believe that children would have developed more skills and different thinking methods if science was connected. We also identified that starting children with a gradual realise of a solution, not just jumping straight to the making of the scarecrow this will support children learning.  It was discussed that the lessons needed to run for a longer period of time, in order to successfully develop the scarecrow and support the children's thinking and learning process.  

Throughout this assessment we have worked collaboratively together as a group (Shona and Brittany). We have developed the design brief and solution as a group so we can design an engaging and hands on activity for the students. Throughout this Shona and Brittany have worked together to create a unit plan that develops students understanding of a topic while drawing upon appropriate curriculum areas. 

By working closely together we added our perspectives and experiences to this learning process and developed the overall assessment piece. We achieved this by participating in Zooms and mainly by conversations on Facebook chat and through the telephone.    

-          Created role and responsibilities, we contributed through the forum and then made a word document

-          Made regular meeting day

-          Zooms were uploaded

-          Created a Facebook chat

-          Created design brief

-          Solution

-          Curriculum links

-          Unit plan

-          Lesson plans

-          Solution photos

-          Reflection (lesson plans)

-          Reflection (curriculum links)

-          Uploading to Padlet

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2016). [ACARA]. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum: Design and Technologies. Retrieved from https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/technologies/design-and-technologies/?year=12973&strand=Design+and+Technologies+Knowledge+and+Understanding&strand=Design+and+Technologies+Processes+and+Production+Skills&capability=ignore&capability=Literacy&capability=Numeracy&capability=Information+and+Communication+Technology+%28ICT%29+Capability&capability=Critical+and+Creative+Thinking&capability=Personal+and+Social+Capability&capability=Ethical+Understanding&capability=Intercultural+Understanding&priority=ignore&priority=Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander+Histories+and+Cultures&priority=Asia+and+Australia’s+Engagement+with+Asia&priority=Sustainability&elaborations=true&elaborations=false&scotterms=false&isFirstPageLoad=false

 

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2016). [ACARA]. Foundation to Year 10: English. Retrieved from: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/english/?year=11575&strand=Language&strand=Literature&strand=Literacy&capability=ignore&capability=Literacy&capability=Numeracy&capability=Information+and+Communication+Technology+%28ICT%29+Capability&capability=Critical+and+Creative+Thinking&capability=Personal+and+Social+Capability&capability=Ethical+Understanding&capability=Intercultural+Understanding&priority=ignore&priority=Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander+Histories+and+Cultures&priority=Asia+and+Australia’s+Engagement+with+Asia&priority=Sustainability&elaborations=true&elaborations=false&scotterms=false&isFirstPageLoad=false

 

 

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2016). [ACARA]. Foundation to Year 10 curriculum: Mathematics. Retrieved from:  https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/mathematics/?year=11752&strand=Number+and+Algebra&strand=Measurement+and+Geometry&strand=Statistics+and+Probability&capability=ignore&capability=Literacy&capability=Numeracy&capability=Information+and+Communication+Technology+%28ICT%29+Capability&capability=Critical+and+Creative+Thinking&capability=Personal+and+Social+Capability&capability=Ethical+Understanding&capability=Intercultural+Understanding&priority=ignore&priority=Aboriginal+and+Torres+Strait+Islander+Histories+and+Cultures&priority=Asia+and+Australia’s+Engagement+with+Asia&priority=Sustainability&elaborations=true&elaborations=false&scotterms=false&isFirstPageLoad=false

 

 

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Didadu. (2014, December 24). How to scare? Youtube channel for kids [Video file]. Video posted to http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdJ5hdvsU3g

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