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• Design and Technologies: Foundation to Level 2 description

  In Foundation to Level 2 students explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. Students develop an understanding of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• VCDSCD022

  Sequence steps for making designed solutions

  Elaborations

  • checking that key features have been included in design plans and drawings by referring to identified criteria for success
  • using lists or storyboarding when planning and making, for example, using an electronic planting calendar
  • recording the procedure for making a product, for example, writing a list of key steps for making a recipe or writing instructions for making a container

  VCDSCD022 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Planning and managing

• VCDSTC015

  Explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter

  Elaborations

  • exploring which plants and animals can provide food or materials for clothing and shelter and what basic needs those plants and animals have
  • identifying products that can be designed and produced from plants and animals, for example food products, paper and wood products, fabrics and yarns, and fertilisers
  • considering the suitability of a range of tools when cultivating gardens, mulching and building garden structures

  VCDSTC015 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies Contexts | Food and fibre production

• Digital Technologies: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students identify how common digital systems are used to meet specific purposes.

  Students use digital systems to represent simple patterns in data in different ways and collect familiar data and display them to convey meaning.

  Students design solutions to simple problems...

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2

• VCDTDS013

  Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose

  Elaborations

  • playing with and using different digital systems for transferring and capturing data, for example using a tablet to take a photograph of a grandparent and recording an interview with them about life in the past
  • exploring and using digital systems for downloading and storing information, for example knowing how to download images from a website and insert them into a document
  • exploring and identifying hardware and software components of digital systems when creating ideas and information, for example experimenting with different ways of providing instructions to games software using a mouse, touch pad, touch screen, keyboard, stylus
  • recognising and using hardware and software components of digital systems and experimenting with their functions, for example playing with interactive toys and robotic devices to determine which ones can work with other devices
  • recognising that a digital system follows instructions or commands, for example instructing robotic toys to perform a function such as a dance movement
  • constructing a model of a real or imaginary digital systems device for use in role-play scenarios and explaining the features of the device to an adult

  VCDTDS013 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Digital Systems

• Digital Technologies: Foundation to Level 2 description

  In Foundation to Level 2, students are introduced to common digital systems and patterns that exist within data they collect. Students organise, manipulate and present this data, including numerical, categorical, text, image, audio and video data, in creative ways to create meaning.

  Students use...

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies

• Design and Technologies: Foundation to Level 2 achievement standards

  By the end of Level 2, students describe the purpose of familiar designed solutions and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments. They identify the features and uses of some technologies for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.

  With guidance, students create...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2

• VCDSCD021

  Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment

  Elaborations

  • developing criteria for success with teacher guidance including consideration of impact on environment
  • recording a judgment about design ideas with teacher guidance, for example expressing own likes and dislikes about a design idea
  • reflecting on the processes and challenges of creating a designed solution and sharing these reflections using digital technologies, for example when growing a food product, designing a structure to take a load or making a nutritious snack
  • suggesting areas for design improvement

  VCDSCD021 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Evaluating

• VCDTCD018

  Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs

  Elaborations

  • sharing and describing ways that common information systems can be used to meet communication needs, for example computers can be used as phones and social networking tools allowing communication between families living in different regions
  • recognising and discussing the need for cyber-safety when using online information systems, for example recognising that shared personal information can be used for undesirable purposes and that using a password is a means of protecting identity
  • recognising safe ergonomic practices when children are playing with information systems, for example recognising the need to take regular breaks to avoid eye strain and repetitive strain injuries
  • discussing how a range of information systems support personal needs and impact on others, for example text to speech software can be used to meet the communications needs of people with vision loss
  • sharing ideas about the ways information systems are being used by families and friends in everyday life, for example comparing current digital play equipment with play equipment of 20 years ago

  VCDTCD018 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDSTS013

  Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

  Elaborations

  • exploring how local products, services and environments are designed by people for a purpose and meet social needs, for example the range of shelters provided for the public in a local community; graphical displays to market school and community events
  • asking questions about natural and managed environments and impacts on them when selecting materials, tools and equipment when designing and making products, for example harvesting products from the school garden and using recycled clothing
  • making design decisions based on personal and family needs, for example comparing recipes to suit available cooking facilities such as cooking in the bush compared to cooking in a kitchen
  • exploring and critiquing products, services and environments for their impact on sustainability, for example the environmental risks and benefits of a system for organically or hydroponically growing a vegetable crop from seed or seedling to harvest

  VCDSTS013 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies and Society

• VCDSCD019

  Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling

  Elaborations

  • comparing and contrasting features of existing products to provide new ideas, for example exploring toys with several movable parts with the view to designing and making a simple puppet with one movable part
  • communicating design ideas by modelling, and producing and labelling two-dimensional drawings using a range of technologies to show different views (top view and side view), for example a new environment such as a cubby house or animal shelter
  • identifying one common testing method, and recording results, for example taste-testing comparisons of a food product and recording results in a digital form
  • describing how design ideas meet the needs of those who will use the solution

  VCDSCD019 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Generating