Year 3 Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Designing for Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 3 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Designing for Our Community”.

Students explore how technologies are designed to meet individual and community needs, investigating products and environments that assist people with different abilities and requirements.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Exploring Technologies That Help People Move
2. Investigating Sound and Hearing Technologies
3. Discovering Vision Support Technologies
4. Designing Indoor Growing Environments
5. Creating Food Storage Solutions
6. Testing and Improving Our Designs
7. Comparing Surface Technologies in Our World
8. Sharing Our Community Technology Solutions

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Skills codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.