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Technologies Foundation Year 1 Year 2 Technologies

Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Code VCDSTS013

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28 resources

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: 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: F 1 2

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Technologies Unit: Building a Bee Hotel

The Building a Bee Hotel Unit is a complete design and technologies project where students explore sustainable habitats for native bees. The...

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Year: F 1 2

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Technologies Unit: Let It Roll

This five-lesson Design and Technologies unit guides students through an engaging design process as they explore how toys move. Students tes...

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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: F

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Building a Bee Hotel - Presentation

The Building a Bee Hotel Presentation is an interactive and structured PowerPoint that guides students through a design and technologies pro...

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Year: F 1 2

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Let It Roll Presentation

This five-lesson presentation supports a hands-on Technologies unit where students explore how toys are designed to move. Through observatio...

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Year: F 1 2

Worksheet

Materials Scavenger Hunt

Students set off around the classroom or playground in search of examples of each category of material. This worksheet can be done as a comp...

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Year: F 1 2 6

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(Re)Making Paper - Teacher Sheet

This teacher sheet outline the instructions for a recycling activity where students turn scrap paper into beautiful, handmade paper bookmark...

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Year: F 1 2

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The Importance Of Recycling

Students are asked to reflect on the importance of recycling through either writing or drawing. This worksheet was designed to be used with...

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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: F

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Design Detectives

The Design Detectives worksheet encourages students to analyse everyday objects and their purpose. Using a cut-and-paste activity, students...

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Year: F

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Bee Hotel Design

Students colour materials suitable for bee hotels and sketch their own bee hotel design, labelling the components. This worksheet helps stud...

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Year: F

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Bee Design Sheet Sheets

Students explain their design choices, discussing materials, safety considerations, and placement for maximum effectiveness. This worksheet...

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Year: F

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Building Checklist

Step-by-step checklist for students to ensure their bee hotel is planned, built, and tested correctly. Includes reflection questions and a p...

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Year: F 1 2

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Bee Hotel Assessment

This Bee Hotel Assessment worksheet encourages students to reflect on their completed bee hotel project. Students rate their design, draw th...

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Year: F 1 2

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Building a Bee Hotel Rubric

The Building a Bee Hotel Rubric provides a clear, structured assessment tool for evaluating students' bee hotel projects. Covering key areas...

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Year: F

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Building a Bee Hotel Quiz

The Building a Bee Hotel Quiz is a 10-question assessment designed to evaluate students' understanding of why bee hotels are important, the...

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Year: F

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Bee Hotel & Editable Risk Assessment Sheets

This resource includes two Risk Assessment Sheets to support safe and structured project-based learning. The Bee Hotel Risk Assessment outli...

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Year: 1 2

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How Do Toys Move?

This structured observation worksheet supports students in exploring the different ways toys move. By testing a range of toy types, students...

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Year: 1 2

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Material Match

The Material Match worksheet guides students through an investigation of wheel materials and how they perform on different surfaces. Student...

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Year: 1 2

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Group Planning Sheet

These differentiated Group Planning Sheets support students as they collaboratively plan their rolling toy designs. Each version provides st...

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Year: 1 2

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Rolling Toy Design Sheet

These differentiated Rolling Toy Design Sheets support students in visualising and planning their toy designs for the Let It Roll unit. Each...

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Year: 1 2

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Design Sheet - Rolling Toy

This open-ended Design Sheet encourages students to draw and label their rolling toy creations. It offers a clean, simplified layout perfect...

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Year: 1 2

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Building Checklist & Design Reflection

These differentiated Building Checklists and companion Design Reflection Sheet help students stay organised throughout the construction and...

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Year: 1 2

Worksheet

Let It Roll Assessment

This end-of-unit assessment sheet allows students to reflect on the outcomes of their rolling toy project. It includes sections on testing p...

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Year: 1 2

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Let It Roll - Quiz

This 10-question interactive quiz is the perfect way to review key learning from the Let It Roll unit. Covering concepts such as materials,...

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Year: 1 2

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Let It Roll - Assessment Rubric

This assessment rubric supports the Let It Roll Design and Technologies unit. Teachers can assess student achievement against key learning o...

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