Year 6 Technologies — AC v9
All 24 content descriptions for Year 6 Technologies in the Australian Curriculum Version 9, grouped by strand — each one links to its own page, and TeachKoala can turn any of them into a complete lesson (your first is free).
Achievement standard (what coverage means)
- •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.
- •By the end of Year 6 students develop and modify digital solutions, and define problems and evaluate solutions using user stories and design criteria.
- •They communicate design ideas to an audience using technical terms and graphical representation techniques.
- •Students design algorithms involving complex branching and iteration and implement them as visual programs including variables.
- •They securely access and use multiple digital systems and describe their components and how they interact to process and transmit data.
- •They identify their digital footprint and recognise its permanence.
- AC9TDE6K01explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments
- AC9TDE6K02explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system
- AC9TDE6K03explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments
- AC9TDE6K04explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating
- AC9TDE6K05explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions
- AC9TDE6P01investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE6P02generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE6P03select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
- AC9TDE6P04negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
- AC9TDE6P05develop project plans that include consideration of resources to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
- AC9TDI6K01investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function
- AC9TDI6K02examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data
- AC9TDI6K03explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers
- AC9TDI6K04explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary)
- AC9TDI6P01define problems with given or co-developed design criteria and by creating user stories
- AC9TDI6P02design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
- AC9TDI6P03design a user interface for a digital system
- AC9TDI6P04generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs
- AC9TDI6P05implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input
- AC9TDI6P06evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact
- AC9TDI6P07select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions
- AC9TDI6P08select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
- AC9TDI6P09access multiple personal accounts using unique passphrases and explain the risks of password re-use
- AC9TDI6P10explain the creation and permanence of their digital footprint and consider privacy when collecting user data
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The Year 6 Technologies planning scaffold
A one-page planning sheet with the official achievement standard, every content description grouped by strand, and space for your assessment and week-by-week sequence. Print it and plan on paper, or use it as the skeleton for a unit.
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