West Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Strands

1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

1.2. Processes and Production Skills

2. Curriculum Objectives

2.1. Develop confidence and become critical users of technologies using innovative designed solutions to generate sustainable futures

2.2. Produce a range of digital technologies by manipulating materials, tools and equipment creatively and safley

2.3. Generate ideas and communicate these with a range of audiences using systems thinking

3. Bands

3.1. Foundation  - 2

3.2. Years 3 - 4

3.3. Years 5 - 6

3.4. Years 7 - 8

3.5. Years 9 -10

4. Structure

4.1. Design and Technology

4.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

4.1.1.1. Digital Systems

4.1.1.2. Represenation of Data

4.1.2. Process and Production Skills

4.1.2.1. Defining

4.1.2.2. Designing

4.1.2.3. Implementating

4.1.2.4. Evaluating

4.2. Design and Technology

4.2.1. Knowledge and Understaning

4.2.1.1. Technologies and Siociety

4.2.1.2. Technologies and Context

4.2.2. Process and Production Skills

4.2.2.1. Investigating

4.2.2.2. Generating

4.2.2.3. Producing

4.2.2.4. Evaluating

4.2.2.5. Collaborating and Managing

5. Cross Curriculum Priorities

5.1. Sustainabity

5.2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

5.3. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

6. General Capabilities

6.1. Literacy

6.2. Numeracy

6.3. Critical and Creative Thinking

6.4. Information and Communication Technologies

6.5. Ethical Understanding

6.6. Personal and Social Capabilities

6.7. Intercultural Understanding

7. Links to other Learning Areas

7.1. English

7.2. Mathematics

7.3. Geography

7.4. Science

7.5. Health and Physical Eduaction

7.6. The Arts

7.7. History

8. Key Concpets

8.1. Abstarction

8.2. Data

8.3. Specification

8.4. Algorithms

8.5. Implementation

8.6. Impacts

8.7. Digital Systems

9. Content

9.1. Content Descriptors

9.1.1. They describe what is to be taught within the required band level such as knowledge, understanding and skills

9.2. Content Elaborations

9.2.1. They are designed to support educators in developing an understanding of what is required within the content descriptors