Manufacturing grain products: syllabus links

Years 3–4

Science and Technology: Learning process outcome and big ideas

Stage 2 DMS2.8 Develops, implements and evaluates ideas using drawings, models and prototypes at appropriate stages of the design process.

Works collaboratively to generate ideas for simple products, systems and environments.
Reflects on design ideas for simple products, systems and environments, and suggests improvements.
Communicates ideas through annotated sketches and models and uses scale in drawings and models.
Describes how materials, equipment and resources have been used to produce products, systems and environments.
Works collaboratively to plan and sequence major steps in design and production.
Suggests how design processes could be improved to produce better results.

Stage 2 PSS2.5 Creates and evaluates products and services considering aesthetic and functional factors.

Services are systems that provide for people's needs.
People have different work roles in the processes of designing and manufacturing products and providing services.
There are established techniques for drawing products, such as scale, front view, top view, and for representing systems, such as organisational diagrams and flow charts.
There are established techniques for making products in large numbers (mass production).

Reading RS 2.5
Writing WS 2.9

Procedure text: How to make bread with a bread maker.
Flowcharts: Production process.
Research: Reading food labels and Internet texts.
Presentation of information using ICT: PowerPoint, layout of information, use of colour etc.

Cultures CUS 2.3

Measurement MS 2.4

Personal Health Choices PS 2.12