What might a year 5 Technologies overview look like?
Year 5 Term 1
Digital Technologies Knowledge and understanding
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Investigate the main components of common digital systems, their basic functions and interactions, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014)
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Digital Technologies
Processes & production skills |
Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022)
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Year 5 Term 2
Design & Technologies
Knowledge & understanding |
Investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (ACTDEK021)
Investigate the role of food preparation in maintaining good health and the importance of food safety and hygiene (ACTDEK022) Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use (ACTDEK023) |
Year 5 Term 2 (start) & Term 3 (finish)
Design & Technologies
Processes and production skills |
Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (ACTDEP024)
Generate, develop, communicate and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025) Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (ACTDEP027) Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP028) |
Year 5 Term 3 (start) & Term 4 (finish)
Digital Technologies
Knowledge & understanding Digital Technologies Processes and production skills |
Investigate how digital systems use whole numbers as a basis for representing all types of data (ACTDIK015)
Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, and identify features similar to previously solved problems (ACTDIP017) Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs (ACTDIP018) Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP019) Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input (ACTDIP02) |