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DATTA Vic has a wide range of free teaching resources - some available to all users, and more which are only accessible to our members when they log in. These resources range from toolkits to units of work, and cover P-10 Design & Technologies, STEM & STEAM Education, VCE Product Design & Technologies and VCE Systems Engineering.

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Creative Futures - Our Town 2050

27 Feb 2025 12:13 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

In late 2024, Melbourne Museum & DATTA Vic took the Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop on the road to Shepparton. In a full-day workshop for local educators hosted by Greater Shepparton Secondary College, we explored how teachers could develop a speculative design project for their classes which is based on their unique needs and interests as rural & regional schools.

The day resulted in a new resource - Our Town 2050 - which can be used by teachers wherever they are as a way to engage their students in the design process, learning about the past and speculative thinking, all in the context of their own communities. You can download the editable slides to use as a student portfolio;

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For more information about Melbourne Museum's Creative Futures Annual Design Workshops, click HERE.
Teaching VCE Product Design & Technologies Toolkit

21 Feb 2025 1:00 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

A great resource for teaching VCE PD&T - includes resources on ethical & sustainable design, First Nations design, careers, positive role models, student work, upskilling webinars and much more.

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Teaching VCE Systems Engineering Toolkit

21 Feb 2025 12:49 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

This toolkit has been created for teachers of VCE Systems Engineering, and includes resources on classroom activities, sustainability, first nations engineering, teacher upskilling and much more.
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Teaching Engineering Principles & Systems Toolkit

21 Feb 2025 12:40 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

DATTA Vic has created this free toolkit for educators teaching the Design & Technologies - Engineering Principles & Systems context. It includes classroom resources, engineering challenges, diversity in engineering, careers, sustainability and much more.

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Creative Futures - Future Eco Fashion

21 Nov 2024 1:56 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

The Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop is a teacher education program delivered in partnership between Melbourne Museum and DATTA Vic and funded by Creative Futures.

Each year, teachers come together for a unique professional learning experience on using museum collections and design thinking practices to enrich schools-based design education.

They also contribute to the development of new Design & Technologies classroom resources based on museum collections.

In 2024, DATTA Vic and Melbourne Museum collaborated with our participating teachers to create a Future Eco Fashion resource which engages students in sustainable and ethical fashion design. This resource is an editable student portfolio.

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And if you're looking for some design inspiration, check out the amazing items in Museums Victoria online fashion collections HERE.
Product Life-cycle Animations

30 Jul 2024 5:17 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

DATTA Vic worked with Eco Innovators on a range of animations about Sustainability for Design & Technologies classes. They have a particular focus on the product life cycle, and are a great way to get students thinking about how we can design sustainable and ethical products.

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Creative Futures - Bio Communities

3 Jul 2024 12:59 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

The Creative Futures Annual Design Workshop is a teacher education program delivered in partnership between Melbourne Museum and DATTA Vic and funded by Creative Futures.

Each year, teachers come together for a unique professional learning experience on using museum collections and design thinking practices to enrich schools-based design education.

They also contribute to the development of new Design & Technologies classroom resources based on museum collections.

In 2023, DATTA Vic and Melbourne Museum and Banyule Nillumbik Tech School collaborated with our participating teachers to create a Bio Communities resource which engages students in regenerative design.

How can we design new, sustainable neighborhoods based on principles of Bio Communities?

This was based on the groups experience of exploring a number of nature-based exhibitions at Melbourne Museum, including Bugs Alive!, the Gandel Gondwana Garden and the Milarri Garden Trail. This resource is available as an editable PowerPoint, which means teachers and students can adapt it to suit their own context.

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* Note this resource will download directly onto your device

For more information on Melbourne Museum education services, click HERE.

For more information on Banyule Nillumbik Tech School programs, click HERE.
Teaching First Nations Design & Engineering Toolkit

3 Jul 2024 11:48 AM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

This resources library can be used by teachers of P-10 Design & Technologies, VCE Product Design & Technologies and VCE Systems Engineering to embed and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures in their classroom teaching.

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Teacher Toolkits

24 Apr 2024 12:03 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

DATTA Vic has a range of Teacher Toolkits on D&T-related themes, including teaching Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Design, Sustainability, Diversity in STEM, VCE PD&T, VCE Systems Engineering, Textiles in Society and Primary Design & Technologies.

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Thinking Outside the Box - the Sustainable Seating Project

29 Feb 2024 1:16 PM | Laura Murphy (Administrator)

Thinking Outside the Box - The Sustainable Seating Project is a Year 7/8 Unit of Work from Forest Learning and DATTA Vic which investigates the properties and sustainability of cardboard . Using ForestVR 360o videos, students go on virtual excursions to an Australian pine plantation and paper mill to experience the cycle of growing sustainable wood fibre and how it is processed into paperboard. Following the design thinking process, students then investigate, design, produce and evaluate a sustainable seat made from upcycled cardboard.

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