Year 4 Technologies – Term 4 (WA Curriculum): Food, Materials and People in Our World

What this unit covers

In Term 4, Year 4 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Food, Materials and People in Our World”.

Students explore how different technologies, materials and people work together to produce food, create products and solve problems in various contexts and cultures.

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 Food Production Through Time and Cultures
2. Investigating How Food Properties Guide Our Choices
3. Testing Material Properties for Different Purposes
4. Designing with the Right Materials for the Job
5. Meeting the People Behind Technology Careers
6. Planning and Designing Solutions for Real Problems
7. Creating and Testing Our Technology Solutions
8. Evaluating How Technologies Help Our 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 4

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 4 runs from Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December — 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.