Year 1 Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): How Things Move in Our World

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 1 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “How Things Move in Our World”.

Students explore how simple machines and movement technologies work in their daily lives, developing critical thinking skills while understanding the social impact of these technologies.

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 Moving Things Around Us
2. How Wheels Help Us Every Day
3. Investigating Slopes and Ramps in Our Community
4. Building Simple Moving Machines
5. Comparing Fast and Slow Movement
6. Creating Our Own Rolling Machines
7. Testing How Curves Change Movement
8. Sharing Our Moving Inventions

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.