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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

Years 9 and 10 Digital Technologies

Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as precisely and accurately describing problems and the use of modular approaches to solutions. It also focuses on engaging students …

Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Structure Design and Technologies

The Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies (F–10) comprises two related strands: Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding – the use, development and impact of technologies and design ideas across a range of technologies contexts Design …

Structure | Design and Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (3) ACTDEP006

identifying one common testing method, and recording results, for example taste-testing comparisons of a food product and recording results in a digital form

Elaboration (1) ACTDEK045

conducting sensory assessment testing of a range of foods to determine how these characteristics might be used to enhance food solutions, for example taste testing a variety of milks, comparing freshly squeezed juice to commercial juices

Elaboration ACTDEK010

exploring, playing with and testing materials for their appropriateness, for example materials for a new sun-shade product

Elaboration (2) ACTDEP014

exploring and testing a range of materials under different conditions for suitability including sustainability considerations and identifying appropriate tools, equipment and techniques

Elaboration (5) ACTDEK031

investigating components, tools and equipment, for example testing the durability of batteries, determining the effective range of wireless devices

Elaboration (3) ACTDIP012

testing the adequacy of student solutions, for example asking a classmate to review a digital solution and provide feedback

Elaboration (3) ACTDEP024

testing a range of materials, components, tools and equipment to determine the appropriate technologies needed to make products, services or environments, for example a moving vehicle

Elaboration (5) ACTDIP038

testing a range of text and graphical user interface designs with clients who have different needs on the basis of time taken to complete the task and the number of errors made

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 (2) ACTDEP025

analysing and modifying design ideas to enhance and improve the sustainability of the product, service, environment or system

Elaboration (3) ACTDEP028

outlining the planning and production steps needed to produce a product, service or environment using digital technologies

Elaboration ACTDEP035

considering community needs when identifying opportunities for designing, for example gardens for a community centre, cost effective food service for a sport club

Elaboration (4) ACTDEK010

exploring and testing factors that impact on design decisions, for example considering the demographics of an area or the impact of natural disasters on design of constructed environments such as the structural design of buildings in Japan to withstand …

Elaboration ACTDIP044

managing and modifying the development of a solution, for example using software to record and monitor project tasks, responsibilities and timeframes and to organise continuous opportunities to review progress with collaborative partners and to conduct …

Elaboration (3) ACTDEP025

representing and communicating design ideas using modelling and drawing standards including the use of digital technologies, for example scale; symbols and codes in diagrams; pictorial maps and aerial views using web mapping service applications

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 (3) ACTDEP035

examining, testing and evaluating a variety of suitable materials, components, tools and equipment for each design project, for example the differences between natural hardwood and plantation softwood timbers, which determine their suitability for particular …

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