Year 8 Technologies — AC v9
All 29 content descriptions for Year 8 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)
- •For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities.
- •By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures.
- •They design and trace algorithms and implement them in a general-purpose programming language.
- •Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats.
- •Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.
- •They select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to create, locate and share content; and to plan, collaborate on and manage projects.
- •They independently and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely produce designed solutions.
- •They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools.
- •Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability.
- •By the end of Year 8 students develop and modify creative digital solutions, decompose real-world problems, and evaluate alternative solutions against user stories and design criteria.
- •Students manage their digital footprint.
- AC9TDE8K01analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments
- AC9TDE8K02analyse the impact of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures
- AC9TDE8K03analyse how force, motion and energy are used to manipulate and control engineered systems
- AC9TDE8K04analyse how food and fibre are produced in managed environments and how these can become sustainable
- AC9TDE8K05analyse how properties of foods determine preparation and presentation techniques when designing solutions for healthy eating
- AC9TDE8K06analyse how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE8P01analyse needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate and select materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE8P02generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE8P03select, justify and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment, skills and processes to safely make designed solutions
- AC9TDE8P04develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
- AC9TDE8P05develop project plans to individually and collaboratively manage time, cost and production of designed solutions
- 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
- AC9TDI8K04explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary
- AC9TDI8P01acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
- AC9TDI8P02analyse and visualise data using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends
- AC9TDI8P03model and query the attributes of objects and events using structured data
- AC9TDI8P04define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
- AC9TDI8P05design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
- AC9TDI8P06trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
- AC9TDI8P07design the user experience of a digital system
- AC9TDI8P08generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
- AC9TDI8P09implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
- AC9TDI8P10evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact
- AC9TDI8P11select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions
- AC9TDI8P12select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects
- AC9TDI8P13explain how multi-factor authentication protects an account when the password is compromised and identify phishing and other cyber security threats
- AC9TDI8P14investigate and manage the digital footprint existing systems and student solutions collect and assess if the data is essential to their purpose
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The Year 8 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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