Key ideas
Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures The Technologies curriculum provides students with opportunities to consider how solutions that are created now will be used in the future. Students will identify the possible benefits and risks of creating …
Key ideas | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Structure Digital Technologies
The Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies (F–10) comprises two related strands: Digital Technologies knowledge and understanding – the information system components of data, and digital systems (hardware, software and networks) Digital Technologies …
Structure | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Rationale Digital Technologies
This rationale complements and extends the rationale for the Technologies learning area. In a world that is increasingly digitised and automated, it is critical to the wellbeing and sustainability of the economy, the environment and society, that the …
Rationale | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIP018
Design a user interface for a digital system
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIP018 | Content Descriptions | 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
Elaboration (1) ACTDEK023
evaluating the functional properties of a specific-purpose household system, for example a security system
Elaboration (1) | ACTDEK023 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDEK011
Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDEK011 | Content Descriptions | Years 3 and 4 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIP028
Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIP028 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACTDEK010
examining the suitability of a service or everyday system and proposing improvements, for example a water saving system for a bathroom at home
Elaboration (1) | ACTDEK010 | Content Descriptions | Years 3 and 4 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACTDEK020
investigating the technologies in a control system for an identified need or opportunity and user, for example a system that allows safe passage at pedestrian crossings
Elaboration (5) | ACTDEK020 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIK034
explaining how an operating system manages the relationship between hardware, applications and system software
Elaboration | ACTDIK034 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIK034
identifying how changes to the configuration of an operating system change the operation of hardware and software components in a networked digital system
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIK034 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDEK020
Investigate how electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDEK020 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
ACTDIP039
Design the user experience of a digital system by evaluating alternative designs against criteria including functionality, accessibility, usability, and aesthetics
Elaborations ScOT Terms
ACTDIP039 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIP039
evaluating aspects of the total user experience, that is, all aspects of the system as perceived by the users, for example, a user’s initial experience of setting up and using a system, or a user’s emotional or cultural response to using a digital sy …
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIP039 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDEK020
recognising the need to carefully plan and select components for a system to perform a specific task
Elaboration (3) | ACTDEK020 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDIP027
starting from a simplified system, gradually increase complexity until a model of a real-world system is developed, and record the difficulties associated with each stage of implementation
Elaboration (3) | ACTDIP027 | Content Descriptions | Years 7 and 8 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACTDEK011
experimenting with available local materials, tools and equipment to solve problems requiring forces including identifying inputs (what goes in to the system), processes (what happens within the system) and outputs (what comes out of the system), for …
Elaboration (5) | ACTDEK011 | Content Descriptions | Years 3 and 4 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIP021
imagining how the functioning of one type of information system could be applied in a new way to meet a community or national need, for example considering how an electronic tracking system such as a global positioning system (GPS) could be used to find …
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIP021 | Content Descriptions | Years 5 and 6 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDEK047
critiquing the social nature of services, for example a signage system to manage students and community members during a school function (signs may include words, pictures and/or braille); organisational system for an aged-care facility
Elaboration (2) | ACTDEK047 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum