Australian Curriculum Technologies
by Thalia Desmond
1. Band Levels
1.1. Foundation to Year 2
1.2. Years 3 to 4
1.3. Years 5 to 6
1.4. Years 7 to 8
1.5. Years 9 to 10
2. Cross Curriculum Priorities
2.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
2.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia
2.3. Sustainability
3. Student Diversity
3.1. Students with disability
3.2. English as an additional language or dialect
3.3. Gifted and talented students
4. Content Descriptions
5. Achievement Standards
5.1. The sequence of achievement standards in each Technologies subject describes progress in the subject, demonstrating a broad sequence of expected learning by the end of the band. This sequence provides teachers with a framework for development in each Technologies subject.
5.2. 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.
6. General Capabilities
6.1. Literacy
6.2. Numeracy
6.3. Critical and Creative Thinking
6.4. Information and Communication Technology Capability
6.5. Personal and Social Capability
6.6. Ethical Understanding
6.7. Intercultural Understanding
7. Subjects
7.1. Design and Technologies
7.1.1. Strands
7.1.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
7.1.1.1.1. Technologies and Society
7.1.1.1.2. Technologies Contexts
7.1.1.2. Processes and Production Skills
7.1.1.2.1. Investigating
7.1.1.2.2. Gerenrating
7.1.1.2.3. Producing
7.1.1.2.4. Evaluating
7.1.1.2.5. Collaborating and Managing
7.2. Digital Technologies
7.2.1. Strands
7.2.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
7.2.1.1.1. Digital Systems
7.2.1.1.2. Representation of Data
7.2.1.2. Processes and Production Skills
7.2.1.2.1. Collecting, Managing and Analysing Data
7.2.1.2.2. Defining
7.2.1.2.3. Designing
7.2.1.2.4. Implementing
7.2.1.2.5. Evaluating
7.2.1.2.6. Collaborating and Managing