What might a year 6 Technologies overview look like?
Year 6 Term 1 & 2
Design & Technologies
Knowledge & understanding |
Investigate how forces or electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system (ACTDEK020)
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Digital Design
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) |
Design & Technologies
Knowledge & understanding |
Investigate how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019)
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Design and Technologies Knowledge and understanding
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Investigate how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019)
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Digital Technologies
Processes and production skills |
Explain how developed solutions and existing information systems are sustainable and meet local community needs, considering opportunities and consequences for future applications (ACTDIP021)
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Year 6 Term 3 & 4
Design and Technologies Knowledge and understanding
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Investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (ACTDEK021)
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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) |
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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