Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Cross Curriculum Priorities

1.1. Sustainability

1.2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

1.3. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

2. Band levels

2.1. F-2

2.2. 3-4

2.3. 5-6

3. Strands

3.1. Processes and production skills

3.2. Knowledge and understanding

4. Content Description & Elaborations

4.1. Technologies and society

4.2. Technologies contexts

4.3. Engineering principles and systems

4.4. Food and fibre production

4.5. Food specialisations

4.6. Materials and technologies specialisation

4.7. Investigating and defining

4.8. Designing

4.9. Producing and implementing

4.10. Evaluating

4.11. Collaborating and managing

5. General Capabilities

5.1. Literacy

5.2. Numeracy

5.3. Information and communication technology

5.4. Critical and creative thinking

5.5. Personal and social capability

5.6. Ethical understanding

5.7. Intercultural understanding

6. Thinking in Technologies

6.1. Design

6.2. Computational

6.3. Systems

7. Links to other learning areas

7.1. History

7.2. Science

7.3. The Arts

7.4. English

7.5. Health and Physical Education

7.6. Humanities and Social Sciences

7.7. Mathematics

7.8. Languages

8. Aims/Objectives

8.1. Use technology in creative ways

8.2. Select and use appropriate technology

8.3. Make informed decisions about technology

8.4. Critique own designs using their knowledge of tecnology

9. Subjects

9.1. Design and technology

9.2. Digital technologies

10. Student diversity

10.1. English as an additional language or dialect

10.2. Students with disability

10.3. Gifted and talented students

11. Key concepts

11.1. Implementation to create digital solutions

11.2. Representations

11.3. Data collection

11.4. Interpretation

11.5. Specification

11.6. Algorithms

12. Key ideas

12.1. Creating preferred futures

12.2. Project management

12.3. Safety

12.4. Animal ethics