About this Unit

Unit One of Year 10 Design Technologies Food Specialisations: 

This unit gives students experiences of participating in practical classes to develop skillsets, observing skills and equipment in food preparation environments and making connections between hygiene, personal safety and occupational and workplace related health and safety. 

Students will be supported to achieve Year 10 standards through an approach that combines explicit teaching, scaffolded analysis, and investigations to make judgments on how the principles of food safety, preparation, presentation influence the creation of food solutions. 

Tasks are designed to enable all students to achieve success in receptive and productive modes. The sequence of learning provides an authentic opportunity for students to produce and share an item they have constructed meeting constraints using the Design Process.

Duration and sequence pathways: 

This unit is designed as a responsive cycle of learning and teaching to be taught over three weeks. It is designed to be taught in 13 consecutive lessons (55 minutes each). Some lessons are planned to be run in a double session (1hr 40 mins). Lessons One - Ten are evident out of the typical Thirteen cycle.

An emphasis is placed on representations within texts and the use of the knowledge gained being transferred to practical situations. Australian Curriculum links are explicitly shown to students and a summary can be seen in each lesson. 

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Unit Outline:

General Capabilities:

·      Focus on the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability. This can be seen in the learning activities where students are analysing multimodal texts and using a website to gain access to all their lesson overviews.

·      Literacy and Critical and Creative Thinking strategies are embedded.

·      Personal and Social Capability features are built through collaboration within the classroom, between the teacher and student and peer activities.