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Year 5 and Year 6 Australian Curriculum: Technologies (dra9) Strand: Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding Content Descriptor: Explain how forces or electrical energy can be used to control movement, sound or light in a product or system and consider how material properEes and construcEon processes influence the design and construcEon of structures.

Cross curricular links: Literacy, science

This unit of work involves students looking at the evoluEon of space travel, from the history of first experience outside the Earth’s atmosphere to Sir Richard Branson’s dream of Virgin GalacEc and commercial passenger travel into space. Students will apply the knowledge acquired to construct and launch a space cra9. At the conclusion of these learning experiences students will be able to: – Facilitate research to plan and collaboraEvely design a space cra9. – CriEcally analyse the materials required and designs constructed to assemble a space cra9 from recyclable materials. – Explain the theory behind the moEon of force specifically looking into Newton’s ‘third law of moEon’. – Safely launch the rocket ship and use mathemaEcal concepts to calculate the height The third sequenDal lesson involves students working in groups of mixed abiliDes to invesDgate propulsion theories by conducDng a ‘Balloon Rocket’ experiment.