Year 6 Technologies – Term 4 (WA Curriculum): Designing for Our World

What this unit covers

In Term 4, Year 6 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Designing for Our World”.

Students explore how food and fibre production systems, material properties, and design considerations shape the technologies that meet human needs in sustainable ways.

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. Investigating Plant Growth Systems for Food Production
2. Comparing Fibre Production Methods to Create Textiles
3. Making Healthy Food Choices Using Australian Guidelines
4. Designing Nutritious Meals on a Budget
5. Testing Material Combinations for School Equipment Design
6. Creating Photo Frames Using Planned Production Systems
7. Exploring Career Pathways in Design and Technologies
8. Evaluating Sustainable Design Solutions for Our School

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 4

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 4 runs from Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December — 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.