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  • Unit Title

    Secondary Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics
  • Unit Code

    FME6712
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Sandy SMITH

Description

This units builds on the preparation for teaching Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics and the planning of lessons within previous units. Teaching/learning strategies which are applicable to the Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics classrooms, together with the evaluation of the effectiveness of those strategies are covered. Issues in the planning of programs for Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics courses are considered and programming skills are developed. Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics upper school courses are introduced.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed FME6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HEE4216, HEE6712

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the current SCSA curriculum to inform and design lesson planning in secondary Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics.
  2. Plan and evaluate a series of appropriate Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics lessons for secondary students which follow appropriate safety and hygiene procedures.
  3. Critically analyse and create a range of assessment strategies and tools to assess, make consistent judgement and provide feedback on secondary Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics students' knowledge and understanding.
  4. Critically evaluate learning programs to create a sequence of lessons informed by the secondary Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics curriculum.
  5. Critically evaluate a range of strategies and resources (including ICT) to develop effective teaching and learning activities for a secondary Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics classroom.

Unit Content

  1. Secondary curricula for Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics education, from the Western Australian Curriculum.
  2. Western Australian Year 11 and 12 Technology courses linked to Food and Materials Technology Education: Home Economics. Notably Food Science and Technology, Children, Family and the Community and Materials Design and Technology (Textiles context).
  3. Lesson planning and forward planning.
  4. Safety and hygiene procedures.
  5. Assessment strategies and tools, both formative and summative, to effectively assess students in the Food and Materials Technologies: Home Economics classrooms.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 214 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecture, tutorial and group project.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentProgramme Planning60%
PresentationPeer Teaching Task40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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