Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Content descriptions: Describe the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.

1.1. Project Sponsor

1.2. Project Manager

1.3. Developers

1.4. Primary User Group

1.5. Supporting Staff

2. Aims and objectives: Aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that individually and collaboratively students:

2.1. Are creative, innovative and enterprising when using all technologies and understand development of technology

2.2. effectively and responsibly select and manipulate technologies Engage confidently with technologies and make informed, ethical and sustainable decisions

2.3. critique and evaluate technologies processes to dentify and create solutions to a range of problems Investigate, design, plan, manage, create, produce a nd evaluate technologies solutons

2.3.1. Included

2.3.2. Included

2.3.3. Excluded

3. Content elaborations: Content elaborations are provided for each content description in Foundation to Year 10 to illustrate content. They are intended to help teachers in developing a shared understanding of the content descriptions.

3.1. Project Start

3.1.1. Project specifications

3.1.2. End User requirements

3.1.3. Action points sign-off

3.2. Development Stage 1

3.2.1. Define actions as necessary

3.3. Development Stage 2

4. Key Ideas and Concepts: Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures -Project management -Thinking in Technologies -Systems and Design thinking -Computational thinking

4.1. Schedule

4.2. Budget

4.3. Resources

4.4. Delays

5. Subjects: Digital Technologies Design and Technologies

5.1. Budget

5.1.1. Materials

5.1.2. Personel

5.1.3. Services

5.1.4. Duration

5.2. Delivery Timeline

5.3. Requirements

6. Strands: Knowledge and understanding Processes and production skills.

6.1. Define Project Schedule

6.1.1. Dependencies

6.1.2. Milestones

6.2. Limitations

6.2.1. Schedule

6.2.2. Budget

6.3. Define Project Development Measurement

6.3.1. KPI's

7. General Capabilities: -Literacy -Numeracy -Information and Communication capability -Critical and creative thinking -Personal and social capability -Ethical understanding -Intercultural understanding

8. Student Diveraity: ACARA is commited to the development of a high quality curriculum for all students. All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Australian Curriculum: Technologies.

9. Cross-CUrriculum Priorities: -Aboriginal and Tores Strait Islander histories and cultures -Asia and Australias engagement with Asia -Sustainability

10. Achievement standards: Achievement standards indicate the quality of learning that students should typically demonstrate by a particular point in their schooling. An achievement standard describes the quality of learning (the depth of conceptual understanding and the sophistication of skills) that would indicate the student is well-placed to commence the learning required at the next level of achievement. Achievement standards will be accompanied by portfolios of annotated student work samples that illustrate the expected learning and help teachers to make judgments about whether students have achieved the standard.

11. Band levels: The Curriculum for each Technologies subject is written in bands of year levels: -Foundation to Year 2 -Years 3 and 4 -Years 5 and 6 -Years 7 and 8 -Years 9 and 10 Band level descriptions provide and overview of the content at each level