Foundation Learning

This term, all MMPS students will explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within different settings. Students develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions. They begin to consider the impact of their decisions on others and the environment.

At the Foundation level, students are introduced to design and technologies through investigating, generating, producing and evaluating material properties, including that of paper, plastic and wood. They will investigate by wetting, cutting, folding and bending materials to find out when and how they can be useful. Students will then create and draw a model to carry a heavy object, and verbalise their design ideas. Foundation students will consider the properties of their chosen material and reflect on their design ideas collaboratively with peers, establish adjustments and make improvements to their model. 

Here are some learning responses after the Foundation students investigated the properties of paper this week:

Alex - Paper ripped easily when it got wet in the bottom of a tub of water.

Zac - We watched videos and saw big machines cutting down trees to make paper. 

Tahlia - Paper can make a fan if you fold it a lot.  

Isabelle - You can fold paper to make different things.

Rani - You can scrunch paper up into a ball. 

Olivia - When paper gets wet it gets really soggy and you can’t use it anymore!