My second learning area is Home Economics. Home Economics falls in the learning area of Design and Technologies.
https://docs.acara.edu.au/resources/Technologies_-_GC_learning_area.pdf
Students will be able to:
Communicate ideas, concepts and details to a variety of audiences
Read and interpret detailed written instructions for specific technologies, including schematics
Write project outlines, briefs, concepts and project management proposals
Students will be able to:
Use numbers to calculate, measure and estimate
Interpret and draw conclusions from statistics
Measure and record through process of generating ideas
Develop, refine and test concepts
Cost and sequence when making products and managing projects.
In using software, materials, tools and equipment, students work with number concepts, scale, proportions, shapes, measurement and volume.
Use 2D and 3D models
Calculate best fit scenarios
Students will be able to:
Develop reasoning to develop reasoning for problem solving
Analyse problems, refine concepts and reflect decision making
Identify and explore a range of technologies and utilise knowledge in a range of situations.
Think critically and creatively about our futures.
Experiment and utilise digital media tools.
Utilise software to build visual and spatial thinking into creating new products.
Students will be able to:
Develop social and employable skills through collaboration.
Developing skills to socialise, resolve conflict, showing leadership and making group decisions.
Develop social awareness.
Consider past and present impacts of decisions on individuals, families and communities.
Show empathy and understanding and respect for others.
Students will be able to:
Consider the rights of others.
Acknowledge the intellectual property of others.
Learn about safe and ethical procedures when working with people, animals, data and materials.
Learn to value and appreciate the part in the social and natural systems in which they operate.
Learn to become ethical digital citizens.
Students will be able to:
Explore ways to enable technology use to interact with others across cultural boundaries.
Students investigate how cultural identities and traditions influence the function and form solutions, products, and services to meet everyday needs.
Recognise and respond to cultural diversity.