Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Achievement Standards

1.1. Foundation to Year 2

1.1.1. By the end of Year 2 students describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments and how they meet a range of present needs. They list the features of technologies that influence design decisions and identify how digital systems are used.

1.2. Year 3 and 4

1.2.1. By the end of Year 4, students describe how social, technical and sustainability factors the influence of design of solutions to meet present and future needs. They describe features of technologies that influence design decisions and how a range of digital systems can be used.

1.3. Year 5 and 6

1.3.1. By the end of Year 6, students explain how social , ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of solutions to meet the range of present and future needs. They explain how the features of technologies influence design decisions and how digital systems are connected to form networks.

2. General Capabilities

2.1. Literacy

2.2. Numeracy

2.3. Critical and Creative Thinking

2.4. Personal and Social Capability

2.5. Ethical Understanding

2.6. Intellectual Understanding

2.7. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability

3. Strands

3.1. Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding

3.1.1. Technologies and Society

3.1.1.1. Exploring how people use and develop technologies taking into account a range of factors- now and into the future

3.1.2. Technologies Context

3.1.2.1. Engineering principles and systems

3.1.2.2. Food and fibre productions

3.1.2.3. Food specialisations

3.1.2.4. Materials and technologies specialisations

3.2. Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills

3.2.1. Investigating and Defining

3.2.2. Generating and Designing

3.2.3. Producing and Implementing

3.2.4. Evaluating

3.2.5. Collaborating and Managing

4. Student Diversity

4.1. Gifted and talented students

4.2. English as an additional language or dialect

4.3. Students with a disability or additional needs

5. Cross-Currlicum Priorities

5.1. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

5.2. Sustainability

5.3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

6. Band Levels

6.1. Foundation to Year 2

6.2. Year 3 and 4

6.3. Year 5 and 6

6.4. Year 7 and 8

6.5. Year 9 and 10

7. Subjects

7.1. Design and Technologies

7.2. Digital Technologies

8. Key Ideas

8.1. Systems thinking and the overarching idea: Creating preferred features

8.2. Project Management

9. Curriculum Aims and Objectives

9.1. Develop confidence as critical users of technologies and designers and producer of designed solutions

9.2. Use design and systems thinking to generate deign ideas and communicate these to a range of audiences

9.3. Investigate, generate and critique innovative and ethical designed solution for sustainable futures

9.4. Produce designed solutions suitable for a range of technologies contexts by selecting and manipulating a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment

9.5. Creatively, competently and safely and managing processes evaluate processes and designed solutions and transfer knowledge and skills to new situations

9.6. Understand the roles and responsibilities of people in design and technologies occupations and how they contribute to society