Design Technologies - Grow Your Own Greenhouse Gadget: 10 Lesson Plans + Summative Assessment and FREE Design PORTFOLIO Workbook (Year 3-4)

Your 'Grow Your Own Greenhouse Gadget' Unit is Here!

Tired of endless lesson prep and creating student materials for Design and Technologies? Our 'Grow Your Own' Greenhouse Gadget Unit delivers ready-to-use, Australian Curriculum-aligned resources covering the full design process, from investigating materials and forces to exploring sustainability and food production.

Benefit from:

• Effortless Delivery: Clearly defined objectives and explicit teaching content make lesson delivery smooth and confident, guiding students through foundational design concepts, from identifying a need and developing success criteria to producing and evaluating their own functional prototype.
• Engaging Activities: From conducting fair tests as 'Material Detectives', to becoming 'engineers' during the 'Blueprint Bonanza', and entering the 'Construction Zone' to build their own gadget, you will ignite curiosity and cater to diverse learners with hands-on experiences that bring the design process to life.
• Natural Assessment: Embedded formative assessment opportunities within activities allow you to easily monitor student progress as they test materials, develop annotated blueprints, and evaluate their prototypes against co-developed design criteria in the 'Evaluation Gauntlet'.
• Extension Included: Thoughtfully designed extension tasks challenge advanced learners to research unique greenhouse features, design a 'Version 2.0' of their prototype based on peer feedback, or write a detailed 'Gardener's Guide' for their creation.
• Real-World Connections: Connect students' understanding of design to the world beyond the classroom by exploring careers like materials engineering, architecture, and agricultural science, building a strong foundation for STEM thinking and problem-solving.

BONUS! FREE Student Worksheets/ portfolio: This unit includes ready-to-print (or use digitally) student worksheets, directly aligned with each lesson—from the 'Seed's Dilemma' to the 'Evaluation Gauntlet'—saving you even more preparation time and providing valuable learning activities for your students.

Invest in impactful Design and Technologies learning without the extra hours and get FREE student worksheets to match! Get your Year 3 & 4 'Grow Your Own Greenhouse Gadget' Unit today!

(2 Downloads: Lesson Plans (73 pages) and Student Design Portfolio/ Worksheets (14 pages))