Years 5 and 6 Digital Technologies
Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as identifying similarities in different problems and describing smaller components of complex systems. It also focuses on the sustainability …
Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Years 5 and 6
By the end of Year 6, students explain the fundamentals of digital system components (hardware, software and networks) and how digital systems are connected to form networks. They explain how digital systems use whole numbers as a basis for representing …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIP016
Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIP022
considering ways of managing the use of social media to maintain privacy needs, for example activating privacy settings to avoid divulging personal data such as photographs, addresses and names
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIP022 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Learning Area Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Years 5 and 6
By the end of Year 6, students explain how social, ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of solutions to meet a range of present and future needs. They explain how the features of technologies influence design decisions …
Learning Area Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIK015
Examine how whole numbers are used to represent all data in digital systems
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIK015 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIP017
Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements drawing on previously solved problems
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIP017 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACTDIP016
selecting and using peripheral devices suitable to the data, for example using a data probe to collect data about changing soil temperatures for plants, interpreting the data and sharing the results as a digital graph
Elaboration (1) | ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIP016
using digital systems to validate data, for example setting data types in a spreadsheet to make sure a date is input correctly
Elaboration | ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACTDIP016
using data visualisation software to help in interpreting trends, for example uploading data to a web application and building a visualisation of the dataset
Elaboration (5) | ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIP017
using and interpreting data, establishing the root cause of a problem, for example using an annotated diagram to identify omissions, duplications or mismatches of data
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIP017 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIK014
Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIK014 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (4) ACTDIP016
acquiring data from online sources by narrowing the focus, for example filtering data using provided options or performing queries using advanced search functions
Elaboration (4) | ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDIP022
developing a set of ‘rules’ about appropriate conduct, language and content when communicating online, and using these rules as a basis for resolving ethical dilemmas
Elaboration (3) | ACTDIP022 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACTDIK014
explaining how data may be transmitted between two digital systems in different ways, for example that wires or cables are used in wired networks to transfer data from one digital system to another, and radio waves are used to transmit data in wireless …
Elaboration (1) | ACTDIK014 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIK014
investigating how the internal and external components of digital systems are coordinated to handle data, for example how a keyboard, central processing unit and screen work together to accept, manipulate and present data and information
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIK014 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDIP016
using software to automate calculations to help with interpreting data, for example using functions to make arithmetic calculations using multiple cells and summing cell ranges
Elaboration (3) | ACTDIP016 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIK015
recognising that digital systems represent all types of data using number codes that ultimately are patterns of 1s and 0s (called binary digits, which is why they are called digital systems)
Elaboration | ACTDIK015 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDIP017
describing in simple terms the nature of a problem and what a solution needs to achieve, for example what need the problem is associated with, who the solution is needed for, what data are needed and what features the solution would need to include
Elaboration (3) | ACTDIP017 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIP021
using sustainability criteria to explain how well students' solutions meet requirements, for example personal data are secured (social) and the solution can only be viewed on screen to avoid printing (environmental)
Elaboration | ACTDIP021 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum