What might a Year 4 Technologies overview look like?
Year 4 Term 1
Design and Technologies
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Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)
Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to produce designed solutions (ACTDEP014) Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to make designed solutions (ACTDEP016) Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment (ACTDEP017) Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP018) |
Year 4 Term 2
Design and Technologies
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Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies (ACTDEK012)
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Digital Technologies
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Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve them (ACTDIP010)
Implement simple digital solutions as visual programs with algorithms involving branching (decisions) and user input (ACTDIP011) |
Year 4 Term 3
Digital Technologies
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Explain how developed solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs, and envisage new ways of using them (ACTDIP012)
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Digital Technologies
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Explain how developed solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs, and envisage new ways of using them (ACTDIP012)
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Water
Bottled Water Impact of design and suitability of materials Linked with Science (Material World Primary Connections) |
Design and Technologies
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Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs (ACTDEK010)
Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013) |
Year 4 Term 4
Digital Technologies
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Explore and use a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data (ACTDIK007)
Recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented in different ways (ACTDIK008) Collect, access and present different types of data using simple software to create information and solve problems (ACTDIP009) |