MAKER MOTION: fidgets
curriculum links
Year 1
Australian Curriculum
Design and Technologies
AC9TDE2K02
Explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products.
Science
AC9S1U03
Describe pushes and pulls in terms of strength and direction and predict the effect of these forces on objects’ motion and shape.
Victorian Curriculum
Design and Technologies
VCDSTC014
Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in designed solutions.
Science
VCSSU048
The way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape.
Year 4
Australian Curriculum
Design and Technologies
AC9TDE4K02
Describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system.
Science
AC9S4U03
Identify how forces can be exerted by one object on another and investigate the effect of frictional, gravitational and magnetic forces on the motion of objects.
Victorian Curriculum
Design and Technologies
VCDSTC024
Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution.
Science
VCSSU064
Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance.