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Technologies Year 3 Year 4 Processes and production skills Technologies

Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions

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38 resources

Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

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STEAM Unit: Designing Robots

Unlike many of our STEAM activities, this is a full unit, designed for Year 3 and 4 students to fulfil part of the Design and Technologies p...

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Year: F 1 2 3 +3

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STEAM Unit: What is a Hovercraft?

This activity kit, designed to be used in conjunction with our ‘What is a Hovercraft Presentation’ teaches your students the story of the ho...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Unit: Building Better Bridges

This activity builds on the previous fun and learning of ‘Building Bridges’ and challenges students to think about how engineers choose mate...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Unit: Digestion Detectives

This activity has all the learning of a dissection without any of the mess, smells or gross-out, and is designed to be complete in a single...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Unit: Genetic Coin Toss

This activity book is designed to be used with our genetics presentation, allowing you to extend this lesson with appropriate activities for...

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Year: F 1 2 3 +3

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STEAM Unit: Building Bridges

This activity is a quick engineering challenge that your students will love! It can be completed in a single session with minimal materials....

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Unit: Bending Wood

Wood is one of the most fundamental materials there is. We have been using it for millions of years because it is easy to cut, shape and fix...

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Year: F 1 2 3 +1

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Technologies Unit: Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch

The Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch unit integrates Design and Technologies with Mathematics, guiding students through designing,...

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Year: 3 4

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Conductors and Insulators - Presentation

This presentation explains thermo equilibrium, how heat moves, and how some materials are chosen depending on how well they transfer heat. S...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Easter Egg Drop Presentation

This presentation walks students through the Easter egg drop design and technology activity, where they will use their knowledge of engineer...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Sustainability - Presentation

This Presentation is an important part of Teach This’ STEAM unit focusing on sustainability in building design. This presentation will walk...

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Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

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Designing Robots - Presentation

This STEAM presentation teaches students how robots are designed and made to solve student problems, and then walks students through the des...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Building Better Bridges - Presentation

This presentation is designed to introduce students to the concepts included in a STEM activity of the same title. It will help students und...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Genetic Coin Toss - Presentation

In this presentation, students are introduced to some of the ideas behind genetics, and that inherited chromosomes explain why families look...

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Year: F 1 2 3 +3

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Building Bridges - Presentation

This presentation is designed to accompany the STEM activity of the same name. It walks students through the human history of bridge buildin...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Bending Wood - Presentation

Wood is one of the most fundamental materials there is. We have been using it for millions of years because it is easy to cut, shape and fix...

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Year: 3 4

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Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch Presentation

The Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch presentation is a complete 5-lesson visual teaching sequence designed to accompany an inquiry...

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Year: 3 4

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Material Properties

Students look closely at a familiar material and assess it’s various properties, including physical, mechanical and economic properties.

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Year: 3 4

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Types of Materials

Students rank common materials based on their physical, mechanical, and chemical properties.

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Year: 3 4

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Choosing Materials

While no materials is capable at being good at everything, all materials serve a purpose. The story of the three little pigs shows how impor...

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Year: 3 4

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Building a Tiny House

For this worksheet, students have to weigh the desire to create a sustainable and environmental sound house, while sticking to a budget. The...

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Year: 3 4

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Egg Drop Evaluation

Students complete this worksheet after testing their egg drop design and watching others in the class. They sketch their design, and then re...

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Year: 3 4

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Leprechaun Trap - Middle Primary St Patrick’s STEAM

In this STEAM activity, students create a leprechaun trap to try and gain 3 wishes. They will need to explore aspects of leprechaun lore, an...

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Year: 3 4

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St Patrick's Day STEAM Leprechaun Trap - Middle Primary

St Patrick's Day STEAM Leprechaun Trap - Middle Primary

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Easter Egg Drop - Teacher Edition

This teacher sheet will give you all the information you need to run the Easter egg drop Easter activity in your classroom. Along with this...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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Easter Egg Drop - Student Sheet

This is the student self assessment worksheet that concludes the Easter egg drop STEAM activity. They spend some time reflecting on the desi...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Sustainability - Teacher Sheet

This Teacher Sheet is an important part of Teach This’ STEAM unit focusing on sustainability in building design. The unit was designed be as...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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STEAM Sustainability - Workbook

This workbook is an important part of Teach This’ STEAM unit focusing on sustainability in building design. This workbook is best used with...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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How To Haunt A House - STEM Activity

This spooky STEM challenge is a great way for students to celebrate Halloween. Using a step-by-step workbook, students will role play, desig...

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Year: 3 4 5 6

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The Cookie Keeper - Christmas STEM Challenge

Encourage your student’s creative problem solving skills, with this fantastic festive STEM challenge. In this activity, students are asked t...

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Year: F 1 2 3 +3

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What is a Hovercraft? - Presentation

The story of the hovercraft is a story of designing solutions to real-world problems and how the limits of technology can impact design. I...

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Year: 3 4

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Why Grow Your Own Food?

This reflective writing worksheet encourages students to consider the benefits of growing their own food while also exploring the sustainabl...

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Year: 3 4

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Vegetable Garden Arrays

This engaging worksheet invites students to apply multiplication and division concepts to a real-world scenario: planting vegetables in a ga...

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Year: 3 4

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Veggie Patch Design Brief

This hands-on design brief helps students plan their own veggie patch using multiplication, arrays and sustainability thinking. Students cho...

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Year: 3 4

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Veggie Patch Design and Review

This 3-page worksheet supports students in constructing a 3D model of a veggie patch using recycled or repurposed materials. • Pages 1 a...

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Year: 3 4

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Reflection Assessment - Veggie Patch Presentation & Review

This structured reflection worksheet allows students to present their veggie patch models and reflect on their design, teamwork, and problem...

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Year: 3 4

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Designing a Veggie Patch Rubric

This rubric provides a clear and consistent framework for assessing student performance during the Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch...

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Year: 3 4

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Designing a Veggie Patch Quiz

This 10-question multiple-choice quiz reviews key knowledge and concepts from the Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch unit.Topics incl...

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