Year 4 Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Designing for Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 4 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Designing for Our Community”.

Students explore how technologies are designed to meet community needs while considering sustainable practices and ethical decision-making.

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 Community Needs Through Technology
2. Investigating Sustainable Materials in Everyday Products
3. Designing Solutions for School Garden Watering Systems
4. Creating with Recycled and Repurposed Materials
5. Planning a Sustainable Community Transport Solution
6. Building Prototypes Using Regenerated Materials
7. Testing and Improving Our Community Designs
8. Presenting Sustainable Technology Solutions to the Community

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.