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Teacher Information

Identify the Curriculum

Design & Technologies – Descriptors Year 3 and 4

 

Knowledge and Understanding – Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditions societies (ACTDEK012)

Students will investigate food and where it comes from and what types of Indigenous Austrailian's food were eaten and when.

 

Processes and Production Skills – Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representations techniques (ACTDEP015).

Students will investigate the process of getting their food from farm to their plate. They will be able to identify where and when the food is grown in Australia.

General Capabilities

About the WebQuest

Literacy

Comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing

  • Comprehend texts

  • Navigate, read and view learning area texts

  • Interpret and analyse learning area texts

Composing texts through speaking, writing and creating

  • Compose texts

  • Compose spoken, written, visual and multimodal learning area texts

Text knowledge

  • Use knowledge of text structures

Word Knowledge

  • Understand learning area vocabulary

Visual Knowledge

  • Understand how visual elements create meaning

 

Numeracy

Interpreting statistical information

  • Interpret data displays

Using spatial reasoning

  • Interpret maps and diagrams

Critical and Creative Thinking

Inquiring – identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas

  • Pose questions

  • Identify and clarify information and ideas

  • Organise and process information

Generating ideas, possibilities and actions

  • Consider alternatives

  • Seek solutions and put ideas into action

  • Imagine possibilities and connect ideas

Reflecting on thinking and processes

  • Reflect on processes

Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures

  • Apply logic and reasoning

 

Intercultural Understanding

Recognising culture and developing respect

  • Investigate culture and cultural identity

  • Explore and compare cultural knowledge, beliefs and practices

Cross-Curriculum Priorities

 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isander Histories and cultures

OI.5: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ ways of life are uniquely expressed through ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.

About the Web Quest

The web quest is designed for students to discover information on where their food comes from. Websites, videos and information have been sourced from Australian websites as well as some overseas to further enhance student's knowledge on the topic.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Before commencement of this web quest, it will be important that students know how to log on to a computer and access the internet via their school log on or one created by yourself. Google Slide share is used so that students can work collaboratively on the document at the same time it will be necessary to show students how to do this prior to the commencement of the assessment  so to reduce any problems during the final assessment. You can find out more about Google Docs/Slide share here.

 

Suggestions to enhance the students learning

Invite a local Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander elder or community member to come in and talk about the food their peoples/ancestors ate and in which seasons.

 

Students could work in groups and each investigate a product assigned to them by the teacher (or another preferred method). Investigators then work independently researching and investigating information on how their food is processed from the farm to their plate. Before finalising their information on their product, they first work in their experts group (others also investigating the same product) to improve and enhance their information sourced. Once happy they then report to their group with their information. The group then collaborates in creating a Google Doc Slide Share with the information about each of their investigated products. Each group will be allocated their own Slide Share template (Example here).

 

Students investigate recipes and cook or produce an artefact from their product.

 

The class could grow a garden and develop their own process of how the food is grown harvested, processed and then used to cook with.

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