ACARA - Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Band Levels

1.1. Foundation to Year 2

1.2. Years 3 and 4

1.3. Years 5 and 6

1.4. Years 7 and 8

1.5. Years 9 and 10

2. Student Diversity

2.1. Caring for students with disability

2.2. Students who speak English as an additional language or dialect EAL/D

2.3. Gifted and talented students

3. General Capabilities

3.1. Literacy

3.2. Numeracy

3.3. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

3.4. Critical and creative thinking

3.5. Personal and social capability

3.6. Ethical understanding

3.7. Intercultural understanding

4. Key Concepts

4.1. Abstraction

4.2. Data collection

4.3. Data representation

4.4. Data interpretation

4.5. Specification

4.6. Algorithms

4.7. Implementation

4.8. Digital systems

4.9. Interactions

4.10. Impact

5. Key Ideas

5.1. Overarching Ideas

5.1.1. Creating preferred futures

5.1.2. Project Management

5.2. Thinking in Technologies

5.2.1. Systems Thinking

5.2.2. Design Thinking

5.2.3. Computational Thinking

6. Cross-Curriculum Priorities

6.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

6.1.1. Materials

6.1.2. Personel

6.1.3. Services

6.1.4. Duration

6.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

6.3. Sustainability

7. Aims and Objectives

7.1. Investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions.

7.1.1. Dependencies

7.1.2. Milestones

7.2. Are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time.

7.2.1. Schedule

7.2.2. Budget

7.3. Make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future.

7.3.1. KPI's

7.4. Engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies - materials, data, systems, components, tools and equipment - when designing and creating solutions.

7.5. Critique, analyse and evaluate problems, needs or opportunities to identify and create solutions.

7.6. These aims are extended and complemented by specific aims for each Technologies subject.

8. Links to other Learning Areas

8.1. English

8.2. Mathematics

8.3. Science

8.4. History

8.5. Geography

8.6. The Arts

8.7. Health and Physical Education

8.8. Economics and Business

9. Strands

9.1. Knowledge and Understanding

9.2. Processes and Production Skills

10. Thinking in Technologies

10.1. Systems Thinking

10.2. Design Thinking

10.3. Computational Thinking

10.4. Creative and Critical Thinking

11. Subjects

11.1. Digital Technologies

11.2. Design and Technologies