1. subjects
1.1. design and technology
1.2. digital technology
2. general capabilities
2.1. literacy
2.2. numeracy
2.3. information and communication technology (ICT) Capability
2.4. critical and creative thinking
2.5. personal and social capability
2.6. ethical understanding
2.7. intercultural undertsanding
3. student diversity
3.1. students with disabilities or learning difficulties
3.2. english as an additional language or dialect
3.3. gifted and talented students
4. digital technology strands and sub strands
4.1. knowledge and understandings
4.1.1. digital systems
4.1.1.1. the components of digital systems:
4.1.1.1.1. hardware
4.1.1.1.2. software
4.1.1.1.3. networks
4.1.2. representation of data
4.1.2.1. how data is represented and structures symbolically.
4.2. processes and production skills
4.2.1. collecting, managing and analysing data
4.2.2. creating solutions by:
4.2.2.1. investigating and defining
4.2.2.2. generating and designing
4.2.2.3. producing and implementing
4.2.2.4. evaluating
4.2.2.5. collaborating and managing
5. design and technology strands and sub strands
5.1. knowledge and understandings
5.1.1. technologies and society
5.1.1.1. this refers to the use, development and impact of technologies in our everyday lives.
5.1.2. technologies context
5.1.2.1. technologies and design across a range of contexts of technology.
5.2. Processes and production skills
5.2.1. creating solutions by:
5.2.1.1. generating and designing
5.2.1.2. investigating and defining
5.2.1.3. producing and implementing
5.2.1.4. collaborating and managing
5.2.1.5. evaluating
6. achievement standards
6.1. This refers to what the students should be able to achieve at the end of the year.
7. key ideas
7.1. thinking in technology
7.1.1. animal ethics
7.1.2. safety
7.1.3. information and communication technology in the Australian curriculum
7.1.4. computional thinking
7.1.5. design thinking
7.1.6. systems thinking
7.2. overarching idea
7.2.1. project management
7.2.2. creating preferred futures
8. content descriptors and elaborations
8.1. content descriptors provide teachers with an outline of what they must teach. They provide teachers with understanding, knowledge and skills.
8.2. content elaborations provide greater detail of the descriptors.
9. key concepts
9.1. abstractions
9.2. data collection, representation and interpretation
9.3. digital systems
9.4. interactions and impacts
9.5. specification, algorithms and implementation
10. band levels
10.1. foundation to year 2
10.2. year 3 and 4
10.3. year 5 and 6
10.4. year 7 and 8
10.5. year 9 and 10
11. cross curriculum priorities
11.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
11.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia.
11.3. sustainability
12. curriculum aims and objectives
12.1. develop knowledge, skills and understanding individually and collaboratively.
12.1.1. design
12.1.2. investigate
12.1.3. plan
12.1.4. manage
12.1.5. create
12.1.6. innovative
12.1.7. make informed decisions
12.1.8. critique
12.1.9. analyse
12.1.10. evaluate
12.1.11. engage