Technologies
PlannedDesigning solutions and thinking computationally.
Technologies has two subjects: Design and Technologies (creating solutions to real needs) and Digital Technologies (computational thinking, data and simple algorithms). Early years focus on patterns, sequences and following and describing steps.
Strands
How Technologies is organised in the curriculum.
Design and TechnologiesDigital Technologies
Technologies worksheets on SproutSheets
Planned: pattern, sequence and simple algorithm worksheets.
Curriculum content (Foundation – Year 6)
What Technologies covers, by year band and strand.
Foundation – Year 6
Design and Technologies
- •Identify needs and design solutions
- •Generate, produce and evaluate designs
- •Food, materials and simple systems
Digital Technologies
- •Represent and organise data
- •Follow and create simple algorithms (sequences)
- •Digital systems and their uses
Content is paraphrased from the Australian Curriculum v9. See v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au for the authoritative content descriptions.
Other learning areas
English
Reading, writing, speaking and listening in Standard Australian English.
Mathematics
Number, algebra, measurement, space and statistics, built for fluency and reasoning.
Science
Understanding the biological, chemical, physical and earth-and-space sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)
History, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business.
The Arts
Making and responding across five art forms.
Health and Physical Education
Healthy, active living and personal and social wellbeing.
Languages
Communicating in a language other than English.
Learning-area descriptions are paraphrased from the Australian Curriculum (ACARA v9). See v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au.