Pre-Primary Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): How Things Move in Our World

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Pre-Primary Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “How Things Move in Our World”.

Students explore how different surfaces, shapes and forces affect movement while developing critical thinking and understanding how technologies help us in our daily lives.

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 Different Surfaces Around Us
2. Rolling Objects on Carpet, Concrete and Grass
3. Discovering How Shapes Move Differently
4. Testing Round vs Square Objects on Slopes
5. Pushing and Pulling with Different Forces
6. Comparing Easy and Hard Surfaces to Move On
7. Creating Our Own Movement Experiments
8. Sharing What We Learned About Movement

Curriculum codes in this unit

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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.