Year 2 Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): How Technologies Help Our Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 2 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “How Technologies Help Our Communities”.

Students explore how technologies impact our daily lives and communities while developing critical thinking skills through hands-on investigations and ethical discussions.

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 Technologies in Our Homes and School
2. How Technologies Help People in Different Jobs
3. Investigating Forces: Rolling and Bouncing Experiments
4. Testing Different Surfaces and Materials
5. Technologies That Keep Us Safe in Our Community
6. Comparing Old and New Ways of Doing Things
7. Designing Solutions for Everyday Problems
8. Sharing Our Technology Discoveries

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.