Australian Curriculum Technologies (WA)

1. Year Levels

1.1. F-2

1.2. 3-4

1.3. 5-6

2. Aims

2.1. Students manipulate a number of materials, concepts, ideas and systems to creatively produce designed solutions for a range of technology contexts

2.2. Students understand the responsibility and importance of technology based occupations and their role in society

3. General Capabilities

3.1. Literacy

3.2. Numeracy

3.3. ICT

3.4. Critical/Creative Thinking

3.5. Personal/Social Capability

3.6. Ethical Understanding

3.7. Intercultural Understanding

4. Cross-Curriculum Priorities

4.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

4.2. Sustainability

4.3. Asia and Australia's Engagement

5. Subjects

5.1. Digital Technologies

5.1.1. Strands

5.1.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

5.1.1.1.1. Representation of Data

5.1.1.1.2. Digital Systems

5.1.1.2. Processes and Production skills

5.1.1.2.1. Create solutions by:

5.1.1.2.2. Collecting, Analysing and Managing Data

5.1.1.2.3. Digital Implementation

5.2. Design and Technology

5.2.1. Strands

5.2.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

5.2.1.1.1. Technologies and Society

5.2.1.1.2. Technologies Contexts

5.2.1.2. Processes and Production skills

5.2.1.2.1. Create solutions by:

6. Student Diversity

6.1. Differentiation

6.1.1. Disabilities

6.1.2. English as Second Language/Dialect

6.1.3. Gifted and Talented

7. Key Ideas

7.1. Creating Preferred Futures

7.2. Thinking

7.2.1. Computational Thinking

7.2.2. Systems Thinking

7.2.3. Design Thinking

7.3. Project Management

7.4. Safety

7.5. Animal Ethics

8. Achievement Standards

8.1. Students are expected to have acheived by the end of the year

8.1.1. Content Descriptors

8.1.1.1. Prescribed Learning outcomes prescribed from the Achievement standards of the Australian Curriculum