Australian Curriculum- Technologies

1. Strands

1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

1.2. Processes and Production Skills

1.3. Design and Technologies

1.4. Digital Technologies

2. Band Levels

2.1. Foundation to year 2

2.2. Year 3 and 4

2.3. Year 5 and 6

2.4. Year 7 and 8

2.5. Year 9 and 10

3. Aims

3.1. Develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that,individually and collaboratively, students:

3.1.1. Are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional Technology

3.1.2. effectively and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies

3.1.3. Critique and evaluate technologies processes

3.1.4. Investigate, design, plan, manage, create, produce and evaluate technologies

3.1.5. Engage confidently with technologies and make informed, ethical and sustainable decisions about technologies.

4. Key concepts

4.1. Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding

4.1.1. The use, development and impact of technologies in people’s lives

4.1.2. Design concepts across a range of technologies contexts

4.2. Design and Technologies processes and production skills

4.2.1. critiquing, exploring and investigating needs or opportunities

4.2.2. generating, developing and evaluating design ideas for designed solutions

4.2.3. Planning, producing (making) and evaluating designed solutions

5. General Capabilities

5.1. Literacy

5.2. Numeracy

5.3. Information and Communication Technology

5.4. Critical and creative thinking

5.5. Personal and Social capability

5.6. Ethical understanding

5.7. Intercultural understanding

6. Student diversity

6.1. Students with disability

6.2. English as an additional language or dialect

6.3. Gifted and Talented students

7. Cross- curricular

7.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

7.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

7.3. Sustainability

8. Content Descriptions

8.1. Describe the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are expected to teach and what studneta are expected to learn.

8.1.1. Materials and technologies specialisations

8.1.2. Food and fibre production

8.1.3. Engineering principles and systems

8.1.4. Food technologies

9. Content Elaborations

9.1. provided as support material on what needs to be taught and help teachers develop a shared understanding of the content descriptors.

10. Achievement Standards

10.1. indicate the quality of learning that students should be demonstrating.

10.2. describes the quality of learning that indicate if the child is ready to move on to the next level.

10.3. reflect differences in the nature and scope of learning in each technologies subject.

10.4. reflect differences in the nature and scope of learning in each technologies subject.

11. Links to other learning areas

11.1. English

11.2. Mathematics

11.3. Science

11.4. History

11.5. Geography

11.6. The Arts

11.7. Physical Education