Year 6 Technologies – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Competing Technologies in Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 6 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Competing Technologies in Our Community”.

Students explore how competing technologies shape our communities and develop design thinking skills to evaluate and create solutions for community needs.

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. Investigating Transport Technologies in Our Community
2. Comparing Communication Systems: Past and Present
3. Designing Sustainable Garden Production Systems
4. Evaluating Food Packaging Technologies for Waste Reduction
5. Energy Audit Challenge: Our School's Power Consumption
6. Simple Machines: Pulleys and Gears in Everyday Life
7. Speed Control Systems: How Vehicles Change Pace
8. Creating Community Solutions Using Competing Technologies

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.