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Why Grow Your Own Food?
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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 sustainable practices of First Nations Australians. Designed to support inquiry and discussion in the Grow & Multiply: Designing a Veggie Patch unit, this sheet builds awareness of food systems, sustainability, and cultural perspectives.

Students will:

   • Write or draw three benefits of growing their own food
   • Reflect on how First Nations Australians care for Country
   • Share ideas collaboratively with a peer

Perfect as an opening activity, a class discussion starter, or a journal task.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques.
  • We are learning to select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions.
  • We are learning to use design criteria to evaluate ideas and solutions.
  • We are learning to sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions.
  • We are learning to follow and create number sentences to investigate number patterns and rules and to find emerging patterns.
  • We are learning to examine design and technologies that impact the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs.
  • We are learning to describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system.
  • We are learning to describe the ways of producing food and fibre.
  • We are learning to describe the ways food can be selected and prepared for healthy eating.
  • We are learning to explore needs or opportunities for designing and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions.
  • We are learning to explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components used to produce designed solutions.
  • We are learning to generate, develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representations.
  • We are learning to select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions.
  • We are learning to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on success criteria.
  • We are learning to describe, continue and create number patterns and use addition and subtraction to identify the rule.
  • We are learning to recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore how sustainability impacts product, service and environment design to meet community needs.
  • We are learning to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system.
  • We are learning to investigate food and fibre production as well as food technologies used in modern and traditional societies.
  • We are learning to investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes.
  • We are learning to critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment needed to produce designed solutions.
  • We are learning to plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions, both individually and collaboratively.

Curriculum alignment

AC9TDE4P03 9

Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions

 AC9TDE4K02 9

Describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system

 AC9TDE4P04 9

Use given or co-developed design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions

 AC9TDE4P02 9

Generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools

 AC9TDE4P05 9

Sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions

 AC9M3N07 9 Follow and create algorithms involving a sequence of steps and decisions to investigate numbers; describe any emerging patterns AC9TDE4K01 9

Examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

 AC9TDE4K03 9

Describe the ways of producing food and fibre

 AC9TDE4K04 9

Describe the ways food can be selected and prepared for healthy eating

 AC9TDE4P01 9

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

 ACTDEK004 8.4

Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions

 ACTDEK010 8.4

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

 ACTDEP018 8.4

Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively

 ACTDEP015 8.4

Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques

 ACTDEP016 8.4

Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions

 ACTDEK011 8.4

Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system

 ACTDEP014 8.4

Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to produce designed solutions

 ACTDEK012 8.4

Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies

 ACMNA060 8.4 Describe, continue, and create number patterns resulting from performing addition or subtraction ACTDEP017 8.4

Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment

 ACTDEK013 8.4

Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes
ST2-11DI-T old Describes how digital systems represent and transmit data ST2-3DP-T old Defines problems, describes and follows algorithms to develop solutions ST2-5LW-T old Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter ST2-7MW-T old Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes ST2-2DP-T old Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity ST2-1WS-S old Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations MA2-8NA old Generalises properties of odd and even numbers, generates number patterns, and completes simple number sentences by calculating missing values MA2-3WM old Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used MA2-2WM old Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems MA2-1WM old Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas MA2-AR-02 new Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values MA2-AR-01 new Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers MA2-MR-02 new Completes number sentences involving multiplication and division by finding missing values MA2-MR-01 new Represents and uses the structure of multiplicative relations to 10 × 10 to solve problems
VCDSCD032 Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions VCDSCD029 Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques VCDSCD030 Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to produce designed solutions VCDSCD031 Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities VCDSTC024 Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution VCDSCD028 Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to create designed solutions VCDSTC027 Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes VCDSTC026 Investigate food preparation techniques used in modern or traditional societies VCDSTC025 Investigate food and fibre production used in modern or traditional societies VCMNA138 Describe, continue, and create number patterns resulting from performing addition or subtraction VCDSTS023 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 VCMNA139 Use a function machine and the inverse machine as a model to apply mathematical rules to numbers or shapes

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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