Term 1: Food and Fibre
Week 1
Meet the teacher - Introduction
Housekeeping - Each student will get an A4 plastic sheet which will stay in the classroom. This will hold any of the work you do in class and you will get take home at the end of the term.
Cover page - To colour
Discuss - "What do we know about farming"
Learning Activity - In groups brainstorm everything you know about farming (types, produce, for whom, technologies used).
View Video - http://open.abc.net.au/explore/59300 to discover what technologies are used on a dairy farm.
Meet the teacher - Introduction
Housekeeping - Each student will get an A4 plastic sheet which will stay in the classroom. This will hold any of the work you do in class and you will get take home at the end of the term.
Cover page - To colour
Discuss - "What do we know about farming"
Learning Activity - In groups brainstorm everything you know about farming (types, produce, for whom, technologies used).
View Video - http://open.abc.net.au/explore/59300 to discover what technologies are used on a dairy farm.
Week 2
Much of the food and materials our community relies upon started as some form of agriculture on a farm. Whether it came from a field, a forest, a fishery, a piggery or a cattle and sheep farm, there was a natural or managed environment responsible for it's growth.
Discover - new vocabulary around Technology.
Find - in groups, the definition of one of the terms "new technologies", "appropriate technologies", "shelter technologies", "food technologies", clothing technologies", "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples technologies", "colonial technologies", "communication technologies", "Digital technologies".
Create - a visual poster of the term and a definition to display.
Much of the food and materials our community relies upon started as some form of agriculture on a farm. Whether it came from a field, a forest, a fishery, a piggery or a cattle and sheep farm, there was a natural or managed environment responsible for it's growth.
Discover - new vocabulary around Technology.
Find - in groups, the definition of one of the terms "new technologies", "appropriate technologies", "shelter technologies", "food technologies", clothing technologies", "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples technologies", "colonial technologies", "communication technologies", "Digital technologies".
Create - a visual poster of the term and a definition to display.
Week 3
Explore - how five schools in the Junior Landcare program designed and made a range of different things after exploring needs and opportunities at their school.
Create - A speech, using Keynote to accompany you, to outline 'Why our school should have ..... one too'
Click - here to view your task.
Explore - how five schools in the Junior Landcare program designed and made a range of different things after exploring needs and opportunities at their school.
- Creating a Food Garden
- Creating a Frog Pond
- Building a Worm Farm
- Enhanced habitats around the school
- Made natural pesticides to use on their plants
Create - A speech, using Keynote to accompany you, to outline 'Why our school should have ..... one too'
Click - here to view your task.
Week 4
Finish - Your research and preparing your speech
Present - your speech to the class
Do - Your best, Mrs Luton will be filming your presentations.
Finish - Your research and preparing your speech
Present - your speech to the class
Do - Your best, Mrs Luton will be filming your presentations.
Week 5
Finish - Presentations
Introduce - The research task(Part 1): 'Investigate technologies used on farms, fishing and aquaculture or in forests'.
View - the links
Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - Free range, Eco shelters, eco shelters.
A cattle and sheep farm that uses solar energy to power fences.
An aquaculture farm that uses a range of technologies to grow mussels.
A forest that requires a range of technologies to produce timber.
Record - on the task sheets provided the technologies used.
Choose - one to design and create.
Finish - Presentations
Introduce - The research task(Part 1): 'Investigate technologies used on farms, fishing and aquaculture or in forests'.
View - the links
Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - Free range, Eco shelters, eco shelters.
A cattle and sheep farm that uses solar energy to power fences.
An aquaculture farm that uses a range of technologies to grow mussels.
A forest that requires a range of technologies to produce timber.
Record - on the task sheets provided the technologies used.
Choose - one to design and create.
Week 6
View - the links from last week
Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - Free range, Eco shelters, eco shelters.
A cattle and sheep farm that uses solar energy to power fences.
An aquaculture farm that uses a range of technologies to grow mussels.
A forest that requires a range of technologies to produce timber.
Record - on the task sheets provided the technologies used.
Choose - one to design and create.
View - the links from last week
Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - Free range, Eco shelters, eco shelters.
A cattle and sheep farm that uses solar energy to power fences.
An aquaculture farm that uses a range of technologies to grow mussels.
A forest that requires a range of technologies to produce timber.
Record - on the task sheets provided the technologies used.
Choose - one to design and create.
Week 7
Discuss - how learning in Digital Technologies involves creating designed solutions.
Introduce - the term 'design thinking' and the five phases of the design process: Discovery, Interpretation, Ideation, Experimentation and Evolution.
Follow - this link to see the steps involved in designing and making 'Technologies'.
Introduce - The Research task (Part 2) - Design and make a model of technology that could assist with or actually produce a type of food or fibre.
Discuss - how learning in Digital Technologies involves creating designed solutions.
Introduce - the term 'design thinking' and the five phases of the design process: Discovery, Interpretation, Ideation, Experimentation and Evolution.
Follow - this link to see the steps involved in designing and making 'Technologies'.
Introduce - The Research task (Part 2) - Design and make a model of technology that could assist with or actually produce a type of food or fibre.
Week 8
Continue - to work on your task work, 'to design a logo or pig farm'.
View - the website Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - to
Answer - the questions to go along with your task (should be one page in length)
1. What makes it 'free range' pig farming?
2. What does it mean to be 'free range'?
3. Why is it better?
Continue - to work on your task work, 'to design a logo or pig farm'.
View - the website Piggeries that use technologies to produce pigs. - to
Answer - the questions to go along with your task (should be one page in length)
1. What makes it 'free range' pig farming?
2. What does it mean to be 'free range'?
3. Why is it better?
Week 9
Finish - your task work
Answer - the evaluation questions about your work this term...
1. Write about how farming has changed due to technology.
2. Critique your design or model (Why is it good? Or not...?).
3. How well did you participate in the group learning activities (One Note presentation, Designing a farm or logo)?
Collect - all your pieces and put in a plastic sheet
Hand - in to Mrs Luton
Finish - your task work
Answer - the evaluation questions about your work this term...
1. Write about how farming has changed due to technology.
2. Critique your design or model (Why is it good? Or not...?).
3. How well did you participate in the group learning activities (One Note presentation, Designing a farm or logo)?
Collect - all your pieces and put in a plastic sheet
Hand - in to Mrs Luton
Week 10
Last week - of the Unit - Food and Fibre
Discuss - what we have learnt
Enjoy - watching a short movie, 'Wallace and Grommet' (A close Shave)
You've earnt it!!
Last week - of the Unit - Food and Fibre
Discuss - what we have learnt
Enjoy - watching a short movie, 'Wallace and Grommet' (A close Shave)
You've earnt it!!