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Learn About Wool

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Name: LEARN ABOUT WOOL~ From fibre to fashion 

Subject: Design and Technologies

Technologies Context -> Food and Fibre Production

Year Levels: 3-4

Link to Resource: http://www.learnaboutwool.com/years-3-4/year-3-4-design-and-technologies/

Elaboration:
Australia’s wool industry provides the ideal opportunity for students across Years 3 and 4 to explore how sheep are managed sustainably to produce wool and how the properties of wool allow it to be used for a diverse range of everyday products.

Resource Description:
The LEARN ABOUT WOOL resources provide opportunities for Year 3 – 4 students to investigate where wool comes from, how wool is produced, the unique properties of wool and how these properties influence the use and behaviour of the wool-based end products. Students also use the Australian wool industry as the basis for investigating the world-class technologies and methods used in modern fibre production.

The curriculum-based resource packages (The Properties of Wool and Modern Wool Production) include a variety of interactive resources, including a downloadable PDF factsheet, websites, applications and age-appropriate video clips.

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How to use these resources 

  • Students watch the videoclips on where wool comes from and how its processed

video clips

  • Factsheets on keys points are handed out (example shown below)

Example fact sheet

  • Students interact (see and feel) with real samples of raw and processed fibre, yarn and fabric which are included in the hard copy version of the Learn About Wool kit.

Covers differing properties of wool in various circumstances, and also provides videos such as ‘How my sweater came to be’ covering from the farm to production

 

Additional resources:

  • Magazine; The Australian Wool Innovation Limited has their own publication ‘Beyond the Bale’ which shows the varied use of Australian wool from Fashion to Football. Found at http://beyondthebale.wool.com/#folio=4
  • App; ‘The Wool Lab Interiors app’ ‘A guide to the most inspiring trends and to the best wool products, created by The Woolmark Company to inspire and inform textile professionals regarding the infinite potential of Merino wool.’

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ACARA Links

Resource: The Properties of Wool

Fact sheet: PDF link; http://www.learnaboutwool.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/Primary_Properties-of-Wool.pdf

Strand: Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding

Substrand: Technologies context -> Engineering principles and systems

  • Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)

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Elaboration; Students explore and conduct investigation into the resources in order to understand the characteristics and properties of wool, which may affect the behaviour and performance of a product (eg flammability for children’s pyjamas, thermal properties for winter garments, breathability for sportswear etc)

 

Strand: Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding

Substrand: Technologies context -> Food and Fibre Production

  • Recognise/ investigate the contribution food and fibre production and food technologies make to modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK012)

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Strand: Design and Technologies Processes and production skills

Substrand: Investigating & defining, designing, producing & implementing, evaluating, collaborating & managing

  • Opportunities to incorporate the full strand, depending on the classroom activity being undertaken. (ACTDEP014 – ACTDEP018)

wool fun facts

 

Resource:  Modern Wool Production

Fact sheet:  http://www.learnaboutwool.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/Primary_Wool-Production.pdf


Strand: Design and Technologies; Knowledge and Understanding

Substrand: Technologies context -> Food and fibre production

  • Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK012)

 Wool production

Strand: Design and Technologies; Processes and production skills

Substrand: Investigating & defining, designing, producing & implementing, evaluating, collaborating & managing

  • Opportunities to incorporate the full strand, depending on the classroom activity being undertaken. (ACTDEP014 – ACTDEP018)

 Wool posters

 

Cross Curricular Priorities:

Sustainability
Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

General Capabilities:

Literacy

Numeracy

Critical & Creative Thinking (CCT)

Intercultural Thinking (ICU)

Links to other Learning Areas:

Science (ACSSU074) (Years 1 – 8)

Geography (Years 1, 4, 5, 9)

History (Years 2, 4, 5)

English

Economics & business (Years 7, 9, 10)

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‘Go for your life’ Resource
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‘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.