TEACHER Connections
TapeBlocks provide an opportunity for students to explore knowledge and understanding and skills from multiple dimensions of the curriculum including the learning areas of Science and Technologies, the Critical and creative thinking general capability and the cross-curriculum priority of sustainablity.
In the Australian Curriculum V 9.0 Science, students:
- develop Science understanding of forces and motion, and matter and energy (physical sciences)
- learn about how science as a human endeavour. Science, technology, and engineering are interconnected; advances in one field can lead to advances in other fields.
- appreciate the important role of questions, predictions, and hypotheses as critical and creative drivers of scientific inquiry.
In Technologies: Design and Technologies students:
- develop confidence as critical users of technologies and designers and producers of designed solutions.
- investigate, generate, iterate, and analyse ethical and innovative designed solutions for sustainable futures.
- produce designed solutions suitable for a range of technologies contexts by selecting and manipulating a range of tools, equipment, materials, systems, and components creatively, competently, and safely; and managing processes.
- evaluate processes and designed solutions and transfer knowledge and skills to new situations.
In Technologies: Digital Technologies students:
- design, create, manage, and evaluate sustainable and innovative digital solutions to meet and redefine current and future needs.
- use computational thinking (abstraction; data collection, representation, and interpretation; specification; algorithms; and implementation) to create digital solutions.
In the Critical and Creative Thinking capability students develop the ability to analyse and inquire by interpreting concepts and problems, drawing conclusions and providing reasons for their decisions.
In the Sustainability cross-curriculum priority students consider design (one of the organising ideas).
- The role of innovation and creativity in sustainably designed solutions, including products, environments, and services.
TapeBlocks provide an opportunity for students to explore materials they are made of the experimentation required to create solutions with them, the type of designed solutions students can make from them, and concepts related to curriculum content in the following ways:
Science – conductive materials, circuits and switches, testing, evaluation, and experimentation
Technologies (creating designed solutions)
- Design and Technologies context: Engineering systems and principles; Materials and Technologies specialisations.
- Digital Technologies: Digital Systems, data representation, implementation (includes programming)