Asia Education Technologies

Subject: Asia Education Technologies

Link to resource: http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/curriculum/technologies

Year Level: F-10

Strand: Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding

Sub-strand: Food and fibre production  and Food technologies

Content descriptors:
F-2 :

  • 2.3 Investigate sustainable systems of care for plants and animals that are grown, raised and processed for food, clothing and shelter for an identified purpose

Years 3-4:

  • 4.3 Recognise the contribution food and fibre production and food technologies make to modern and traditional societies

Years 5-6:

  • 6.3 Recognise that sustainable resource management is essential in food and fibre production
  • 6.5 Investigate how food preparation techniques can be selected and used to design and produce nutritious food

Years 7- 8:

  • 8.4 Explain how food and fibre is produced in dynamic and interactive systems
  • 8.6 Incorporate principles of food processing, preparation and presentation in designing solutions for healthy eating

General capabilities:

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Information and communication technology capability
  • Personal and social capability
  • Ethnic understanding
  • Intercultural understanding

Cross curriculum proprieties:

  • Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
  • Sustainability

Links to other learning areas:

  • English
  • Science
  • Mathematics
  • Geography
  • Health and Physical Education
  • The Arts

Elaboration to using technology:

The use of the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) Website is to provide technologies resources aligned with the Australian Curriculum in relation to Asia and Australia’s involvement with Asia. This website is organised in a way that the individual is able to search and filter topics/ information through the search engine tool on the main homepage. Individuals can filter based on subject area, year level and country to find specific topic. Once search has been conducted, the page shows links to external websites and resources based on given subject. Links include videos (i.e. YouTube), recordings, statistic websites, voice recordings and other interactive websites such as Scootle, ABC Splash, The Australian Curriculum and a range of other related websites pertaining related information, resources and tools.

 

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‘Go for your life’ Resource

‘Go for your life’ Resource

Subject: Design and Technologies

Year level: 5-6

Strand: Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding

Sub strand: Food Technologies

6.5 Investigate how food preparation techniques can be selected and used to design and produce nutritious food.

Link to resource

‘Go for your life’ is a teaching resource package containing interesting ways to engage students through the above topic. http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/principals/management/gfylactiv5.pdf

This is a video resource from  ‘Go for your life’ to engage students in the topic they will be taking part in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQQ5ZJIzQI

Cross-Curriculum priorities

  • Sustainability

General capabilities

  • Literacy (LIT)
  • Information and communication technology (ICT)
  • Critical and creative thinking (CCT)
  • Intercultural understanding (ICU)

Links to other learning areas

  • English

Overview
This teaching resource consists of four activities that can be carried out with students allowing them to think about what is on the school canteen menu. They will consider if the food is good or bad when it comes to their nutritional value and think of healthier alternatives to promote to their peers.

The activities are:

Activity 1: Investigate healthy food choices currently available at the school canteen

Activity 2: Factors that influence students’ food choices at the school canteen

Activity 3: Design brief and production: ‘Meal Deal’

Activity 4: Promoting the ‘Meal Deal’

How to use the resource
This teaching resource can be used as a guide and does not have to be followed exactly. It is the basis of what students will be completing throughout the 2-3 week period. The resource contains worksheets and example canteen menus, these however do not have to be used. Students can use their own school menus to create a more relevant task where students can see exactly what they are eating and how this can make a difference to their lives and the lives of others. The ‘Meal Deal’ idea is great and the information in relation to this is helpful in getting students to create and use ICT to promote what they have created to others.