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Sustainable housing

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Theme: Designing and building sustainable homes

Australian Technologies curriculum

6.6 Critique, explore and investigate needs or opportunities for designing and analyse and select appropriate materials, components, tools and processes to achieve intended designed solutions

Focus questions

What are the benefits/ disadvantages of the design features of the houses pictured?

What are some eco friendly/ sustainable technologies used in houses?

Which technologies would benefit the location of your house?

Explain how the materials you have used are sustainable.

Explain how the design features of you house make it more sustainable.

Explain how you have used sustainable/ eco friendly technologies in your house.

Materials required and the location of any additional supporting information that will assist develop learning materials for your class.

Design programs such as mind craft, educreations. Range of materials: plastic bottles, pvc pipe, wood planks, tiles, cotton wool, polystyrene cups, bubble wrap, straw, clay, stones, slate, cork, sticks, corrugated iron, construction toys such as Lego, Mobilo, wooden blocks. iPads, class computers, pictures.

Cross-curriculum learning experiences

Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. – students explore housing in different regions of Asia and compare them with Australian houses.

Sustainability – students identify sustainable materials and technologies used in housing.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures – Students explore traditional and contemporary indigenous housing.

English – Oral language collaborating with others/ sharing of ideas

 

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Design and Technologies over time at Wilkinson Homestead

Subject: Design and technologies

Year Level:F-2 3-4

Strand: Design and technologies knowledge and understandings

Sub strand: Technologies and society

2.1 Understand how people, including designers and technologists, design and produce familiar products, services and environments to meet personal and local community needs.

4.1 Recognise factors that impact on the design of products, services and environments including the role of designers and technologists to meet local community needs.

Link to the resource

wilkinson house

http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/About_our_City/Facilities/Wilkinson_Homestead_Museum/Museum_school_excursions

http://www.gosnells.wa.gov.au/About_our_City/Facilities/Wilkinson_Homestead_Museum

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities

Critical and creative thinking (CCT),Personal and social capability (PSC),Literacy (LIT), Sustainability

Links to other learning areas

English, SSE, Maths

A classroom activity using this resource

This local museum loans out artifacts that represent the community over time.  One example are slate chalk boards students use to use in the classroom to write on.

Alternatively there are many great educational excursions including  from tree to me that shows the orange juice making process. or home made cleaners that could be compared to shop brought ones of today.

How to use this resource

In the classroom students could explore what they think the artifacts are and what they were used for and a time period they were used.

Students could then discuss how the design of the item has changed over time and why.  EG slate board to pencil and paper to iPad??

Lastly they could redesign the item to suit their needs/ wants.

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Digital story telling using iPads

Subject: Digital Technologies

Year Level:3-4 5-6

Strand:Digital Technologies processes and production skills

Sub strand: Managing and analysing data

4.3 Collect, access and present different types of family, classroom and community data  using simple spreadsheets, databases and other software to create information and solve  problems

Link to the resource

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sQ3V1UV8g0

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/puppet-pals-hd/id342076546?mt=8

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities

Critical and creative thinking (CCT),Personal and social capability (PSC),Information and Communication Technology (ICT),Literacy (LIT), Sustainability

Links to other learning areas

English, Science, SSE,

A classroom activity using this resource

Digital storytelling is a fantastic way for students to present all different types of information. Narratives, retells and text adaptions can all be presented digitally. The planning and editing are still a major part of the project.

What I think is an even more valuable use of digital storytelling is the presentation of research. One fun way this can be presented is through an interview using PuppetPals. Imagine an interview with Ned Kelly with Glenrowan as the background. Students would need to come up with good interview questions as well as the answers.
While digital storytelling has been around for a long time, using various computer programs, it has never been easier than with an iPad.
Just some of the excellent apps for digital storytelling include PuppetPals, Toontastic, Book Creator, SonicPics, Strip Designer, Little Story Maker, iFunFace, Tellagami, I can Animate, Stop Motion, iMovie, Comic Book, Little Bird Tale

How to use this resource

puppet pals

I used puppet pals app in my year 3 class to produce a interview info piece to raise awareness of the impact the NSW bushfires had on people and the economy.

Once you have an iPad with the app downloaded it’s very easy.

1.Select up to four actors you want to have in your show.  Alternatively you can take a photo and cut yourself out.

2. Select a background. or download one from the internet or again take a photo.

3.Open stage. move the characters around. shrink or enlarge them. you can also make backdrop larger or smaller.

4. Hit record and record your story.  you can pause to change backdrops or characters.