Skills

Plastic and Concrete - How Do People Use Processed Materials?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the ways humans produce and use processed materials.

Making Monsters

A 60 minute lesson in which students design and create a 3D monster using objects made from materials with different properties.

Give Me Some Shade

A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how much shade they provide.

What Works Best?

A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the suitability of certain materials for different purposes.

Occupations Using Technologies

A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how technological devices are used within occupations in the community.

Introduction to Algorithms

A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand the concept of an algorithm by listing steps to move an object around a map.

Reinforcing 8-bit Coding

A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop confidence in identifying and exploring coding data.

What is a Fair Test? (Upper Years)

This is Your Life

A 60 minute lesson in which students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the stages of the human life cycle.

Mothers, Fathers and Babies

A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare observable features of adults and offspring and identify the proper names of adults and their offspring.

Let's Think Like a Scientist

A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of the procedures scientists use and design one segment of an experiment.

How Do Living Things Change?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will activate prior knowledge about how living things change as they grow.

What Snacks Do Ants Prefer?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate which foods ants prefer to eat.

Knowing Matters!

A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how knowledge of states of matter and their changes can help inform practices and decision making.

Working Scientifically Knowledge Check

An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how to work scientifically.

And Further On - Research Into the Environmental Impact of Certain Materials

A 60 minute lesson in which students will be introduced to a research task for them to undertake about a material of their choosing.

Science Experiment - Suck It Up!

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate materials and their absorptive properties through a scientific investigation.

What's the Use? - Developing a Hypothesis to Investigate

A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn how to develop an effective hypothesis for scientific investigations.

Freedom of Choice - Developing Scientific Lines of Questioning

A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn how to develop scientific lines of questioning to initiate a scientific investigation.

Natural Science - How Do People Use Natural Materials?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the use of natural materials by humans throughout history.

Occupations and Sustainability in Technologies Assessment

An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of occupations and sustainability in technologies.

Sustainability in Occupations

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investiagate why occupations within the community need to be sustainable.

Sustainability in the Community

A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of key vocabulary commonly used in relation to sustainability.

Technology - Friend or Foe?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will examine the ways in which technology can both help and hinder our lives.

Life Changing Technologies

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the positive ways in which technology can change lives.

The History of Technology in Occupations

A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how technology has been used within occupations throughout history.

Technology and Occupations

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the need for technology within occupations in the community.

Defining Terms - Technology and Occupations

A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore and define the terms 'technology' and 'occupations'.

Applying Basic Algorithms

A 60 minute lesson in which students will follow a sequence of steps and identify these as an algorithm.

Creating Basic Algorithms

A 60 minute lesson in which students will consolidate understanding of algorithms by creating a set of instructions.

True Colours

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how the colour of an object depends on the properties of the object and the colour of the light source.

In the Shadows

A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare shadows from point and extended light sources.