VCDSTS023 Teaching Resources | Teach This :: Teacher Resources and Classroom Games

Technologies Year 3 Year 4 Technologies

Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs

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26 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: 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 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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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: 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

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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

Worksheet

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 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: 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

Worksheet

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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