Subject: Design and Technology

Year: F-6

Strand: Design and technology – Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding and Design and Technologies Processes and Production

Links to ACARA:

Foundation: Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Year 1: Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Year 2: Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Link to Resource: http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1662194/

Background Information: Designing a wheelchair friendly home give students the understanding that not everyone is the same. It also students to develop an understanding that houses need to cater for everyone, not just people that can walk. It give students the opportunity for them to think outside the box and think about needs of others that require special assistance doing everyday tasks around and outside of the home.

Navigation of website:
Splash for kids is very easy to use. It provides relevant, kid friendly information without using confusing language. Students will be able to watch videos on how people in wheelchairs use their homes in similar, yet different ways to themselves.