AC9TDI6K03
Official content description
explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers
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What Year 5 Technologies students should achieve
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- They process data and show how digital systems represent data.
- By the end of Year 6 students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability.
- Students select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria that include sustainability.
- For each of the 3 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions.
- Students select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, applying agreed conventions and behaviours.
- Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.
The Knowledge and understanding progression either side of AC9TDI6K03
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Taught before · Years 3–4
- AC9TDI4K01explore and describe a range of digital systems and their peripherals for a variety of purposes
- AC9TDI4K02explore transmitting different types of data between digital systems
- AC9TDI4K03recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented differently depending on the purpose
Builds towards · Years 7–8
- AC9TDI8K01explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads
- AC9TDI8K02investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
- AC9TDI8K03investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio data using integers
Other Year 5 Knowledge and understanding codes
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