Explaining how the Curriculum links into this resource...
Links from the NSW Syllabus, Australian Curriculum, Queensland Curriculum have been provided due to the author's current and past locations.
While each state has their own curriculum, they are all derived from the Australian Curriculum.
To enhance learning, the resources are also explicitly linked to General Capabilities and Cross-Curriculum Priorities.
While each state has their own curriculum, they are all derived from the Australian Curriculum.
To enhance learning, the resources are also explicitly linked to General Capabilities and Cross-Curriculum Priorities.
NSW Syllabus links
Direct links to the NSW Syllabus for Stage 2 (Years 3 & 4) can be found on the BOSTES tabs to the left .
These links connect the NSW Syllabus Content, Elements and Outcomes to the learning areas of the resources outlined in both the Digital Technologies and Design and Technology resources. These links have been included as this is the Syllabus the author is required to follow during practicums in the NSW education system. The NSW Syllabus is built from the Australian Curriculum. |
Australian Curriculum links
Links for Design and Technologies Resource:
Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills: Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to produce designed solutions (ACTDEP014)
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding: Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs (ACTDEK010)
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Links for Design and Technologies Resource - General Capabilities:
Visual Arts : Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks (ACAVAM111)
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Mathematics: | Measurement and Geometry | Location and transformation Create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital technologies (ACMMG091)
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Mathematics: | Measurement and Geometry / Shape Compare and describe two dimensional shapes that result from combining and splitting common shapes, with and without the use of digital technologies (ACMMG088)
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Humanities and Social Sciences: / Inquiry and Skills / Researching Sequence information about people's lives and events (ACHASSI076)
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Links for Design and Technologies Resource - Cross-Curriculum Priorities
Visual Arts: Identify intended purposes and meanings of artworks using visual arts terminology to compare artworks, starting with visual artworks in Australia including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR113)
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Humanities and Social Sciences: | Knowledge and Understanding | History exploring how Aboriginal Peoples exchanged ideas, technology and goods with each other and with Torres Strait Islander Peoples across vast distances (ACHASSK083)
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Queensland Curriculum links
By the end of Year 5: Information, materials and systems (resources) The characteristics of resources are matched with tools and techniques to make products to meet design challenges.
Technology as a human endeavour Technology influences and impacts on people, their communities and environments. |
By the end of Year 5: Students use the essential processes of Ways of Working to develop and demonstrate their Knowledge and understanding. They develop their ability to work technologically by generating, assessing and communicating design ideas and by selecting, manipulating and processing resources, to individually and collaboratively design and make products. They analyse how technology and its products and processes impact on people, their environments and local communities. They reflect on their learning and evaluate products and processes.
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