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This original introductory fortnight gives a teacher ten 25-minute daily scripts, three switchable child routes per day, twenty worked context swaps, eight A4 SVG/PDF aids with exact text/tactile alternatives, and two new public formative checks with a separate public teacher-targeted key. Start with the safe materials, invented source cards and school-selection gate. The lessons move from noticing designed purposes in products, services and environments to generating, choosing, making, testing and revising a safe paper solution for a purpose.

The physical action matters. A sketch can show an idea; it cannot show that a child safely made or tested a material solution. Days 6–10 offer actual supervised folding/placing/tabletop trials with adult-prepared broad paper, with observed results recorded as they happen. If a route stays on paper or an adult builds without child-controlled action, record the design reasoning and the making/handling part not observed. A result is never pre-written as “worked.” The school selects or approves the real classroom context, materials, access and safety; the printed scenarios are invented practice, not claims about a local school.

The official ACARA v9 Foundation crosswalk and QCAA Prep Technologies alignment show partial, conditional evidence for AC9TDEFK01 and AC9TDEFP01. This fortnight is not complete Foundation Technologies coverage, a prescribed QCAA unit, secure assessment, a child trial or an endorsed product. Read the source/rights ledger, desk run-through, verifier and hash receipt. All optional home actions use spare broad paper and can be skipped; no purchase, personal disclosure or upload is required.