Years 3 and 4 · Technologies · Knowledge and understanding

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

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1. Years 1 and 2AC9TDE2K01identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced by people to meet personal or local community needs and sustainability
2. Years 1 and 2AC9TDE2K02explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products
3. Years 1 and 2AC9TDE2K03explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter
4. Years 1 and 2AC9TDE2K04explore how food can be selected and prepared for healthy eating
5. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K01explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments
6. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K02explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system
7. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K03explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments
8. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K04explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating
9. Years 5 and 6AC9TDE6K05explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions