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• Design and Technologies: Levels 3 and 4 description

  In Levels 3 and 4, students develop ways of thinking about their peers and communities and as consumers and a sense of self and ownership of their ideas. Students explore and learn to harness their creative, innovative and imaginative ideas and approaches to achieve designed solutions. They do...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• Design and Technologies: Levels 7 and 8 description

  In Levels 7 and 8, students investigate and select from a range of technologies. They consider the ways characteristics and properties of technologies can be combined to create designed solutions to problems for individuals and the community, considering society and ethics, and economic, environmental...

  Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies

• VCDSTS023

  Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs

  Elaborations

  • exploring, playing with and testing materials for their appropriateness, for example materials for a new sun-shade product
  • examining the suitability of a service or everyday system and proposing improvements, for example a water saving system for a bathroom at home
  • investigating materials, components, tools and equipment, including by using digital technologies, to discover their characteristics and properties, how they can be used more sustainably and their impact in the future
  • considering the impact of environments on users, for example a school vegetable garden, a protected outdoor play area
  • exploring and testing factors that impact on design decisions, for example considering the demographics of an area or the impact of natural disasters on design of constructed environments such as the structural design of buildings in Japan to withstand earthquakes
  • critiquing designed solutions to establish the factors that influence the design and use of common technologies, for example the characteristics that contribute to energy-efficient cooking such as wok cooking; the suitability and sustainable use of particular timbers

  VCDSTS023 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Technologies and Society

• VCDTDI005

  Collect and sort familiar data, and with assistance use digital systems to represent the findings as images

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with devices to capture and record data such as taking a photo (image data) and recording the results from a structured data-sorting activity
  • assisting to sort objects and events in structured shared experiences based on teacher-defined characteristics and using digital systems to represent the findings
  • sorting data by size and displaying the objects from tallest to smallest
  • assisting to sort data through structured learning experiences, for example sorting classroom objects into categories based on them being ‘the same’
  • using software to select images and sounds to represent the findings of sorted data

  VCDTDI005 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level B | Data and Information

• VCDTDI008

  Collect, sort and recognise simple patterns in data, and assist with the use of digital systems to represent data as pictures and symbols

  Elaborations

  • pairing identical objects from a small collection
  • copying a pattern associated with a familiar activity, for example repeating a movement pattern
  • matching, sorting and organising objects in practical situations
  • sorting objects and events based on easily identified characteristics and using digital systems to represent data, for example sorting objects based on colour or shape and creating a digital drawing
  • assisting to collect and sort data in a structured situation, for example questioning friends about their favourite animal or football team and selecting an image of the most popular response
  • assisting in using common software to present data creatively such as a slideshow, movie or sounds

  VCDTDI008 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Data and Information

• VCDTDS045

  Investigate the role of hardware and software in managing, controlling and securing the movement of and access to data in networked digital systems

  Elaborations

  • explaining how an operating system manages the relationship between hardware, applications and system software
  • comparing the similarities and differences of two common operating systems based on characteristics such as protection, control, processing and storage
  • identifying how changes to the configuration of an operating system change the operation of hardware and software components in a networked digital system
  • explaining the role of hardware and software components in allowing people to interact with digital systems, for example using a mouse or touch pad or screen, speech, accelerometer
  • investigating the operation and use of robotic process control systems
  • explaining encryption of data as a means of protecting data, for example secret keys and ‘exclusive or’ (XOR) and hashing algorithms to digitally sign data

  VCDTDS045 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 9 and 10 | Digital Systems

• VCDSTC058

  Investigate and make judgements on how the principles of food safety, preservation, preparation, presentation and sensory perceptions influence the creation of food solutions for healthy eating

  Elaborations

  • experimenting with food preservation methods such as freezing and dehydrating to determine changes to food structure and how these impact on designing healthy food solutions, for example dehydrating fruit for the lunch box
  • conducting sensory evaluations of a range of foods to determine how these characteristics might be used to enhance food solutions, for example taste testing a variety of grains, comparing home-produced foods to commercial foods
  • determining how the causes of food spoilage can be addressed when preparing, cooking, presenting and storing food items, for example developing a comprehensive checklist of considerations for safe and hygienic food storage and preparation including danger zone temperatures for a food product or service
  • preparing and presenting foods using a range of techniques to ensure optimum nutrient content, flavour, texture and visual appeal, for example, creating a healthy snack for the canteen and using food photography and digital technologies to promote the item in a healthy eating campaign

  VCDSTC058 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 9 and 10 | Technologies Contexts | Food specialisations

• VCDTCD030

  Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, drawing on previously solved problems to identify similarities

  Elaborations

  • checking existing solutions to identify features that are transferable to new but similar digital solutions, for example identifying if there are any similarities, such as user age and special requirements, between an existing game and a new game to be created
  • investigating characteristics of user interfaces that are common for particular types of problems, for example, touch screens encourage users to respond more intuitively than keyboards, or the consistent placement of symbols in games to speed up users' responses
  • using and interpreting data, establishing the root cause of a problem, for example using an annotated diagram to identify omissions, duplications or mismatches of data
  • describing in simple terms the nature of a problem and what a solution needs to achieve, for example what need the problem is associated with, who the solution is needed for, what data are needed and what features the solution would need to include

  VCDTCD030 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTDI014

  Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams

  Elaborations

  • sorting objects and events based on easily identified characteristics and using digital systems to represent patterns in data, for example sorting birthdates and presenting the patterns using seasonal symbols
  • making generalisations about data sets, for example comparing different ways of travelling to and from school using classroom data, discussing results and finding patterns in modes of travel
  • experimenting with different ways of representing patterns, for example using materials, sounds, movements or drawing
  • exploring patterns of objects or symbols to represent data, for example the symbol 12 may represent different data to 21
  • learning about how data are represented by changing pixel density (resolution) in a photograph and noting the change in file size to successfully email to a friend

  VCDTDI014 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Data and Information

• VCDTDS035

  Investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired, wireless and mobile networks

  Elaborations

  • explaining that networks have components that control the movement of data, for example routers, hubs, switches and bridges manage data traffic and that the characteristics of these components impact on the operation (speed and security) of networks
  • explaining how cellular radio towers (transceivers) and mobile phones work together to create mobile networks
  • comparing the reliability and speed of transmitting data through wireless, wired and mobile networks
  • recognising that there are different communications protocols for transmitting data in networks, for example hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is used for transferring web page files in a browser, file transfer protocol (FTP) is used for sending and receiving any files over a network and transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) is used for controlling file transfers over the internet

  VCDTDS035 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 7 and 8 | Digital Systems

• VCDSTC046

  Analyse how food and fibre are produced when creating managed environments and how these can become more sustainable

  Elaborations

  • comparing land and water management methods in contemporary Australian food and fibre production with traditional Aboriginal systems and countries of Asia, for example minimum-tillage cropping, water-efficient irrigation
  • investigating the management of plant and animal growth through natural means and with the use of chemical products like herbicides and medicines when producing food and fibre products
  • recognising the need to increase food production using cost efficient, ethical and sustainable production techniques
  • describing physical and chemical characteristics of soil and their effects on plant growth when producing food and fibre products
  • investigating different animal feeding strategies such as grazing and supplementary feeding, and their effects on product quality, for example meat tenderness, wool fibre diameter (micron), milk fat and protein content when producing food and fibre products
  • recognising the importance of food and fibre production to Australia’s food security and economy including exports and imports to and from Asia when critiquing and exploring food and fibre production

  VCDSTC046 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 7 and 8 | Technologies Contexts | Food and fibre production

• VCDSTC024

  Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution

  Elaborations

  • examining models to identify how forces and materials are used in the design of a toy
  • exploring through play how movement can be initiated by combining materials and using forces, for example releasing a wound rubber band to propel a model boat
  • conducting investigations to understand the characteristics and properties of materials and forces that may affect the behaviour and performance of a product or system, for example woomera design
  • deconstructing a product or system to identify how motion and forces affect behaviour, for example in a puppet such as a Japanese bunraku puppet or a model windmill with moving sails
  • identifying and exploring properties and construction relationships of an engineered product or system, for example a structure that floats; a bridge to carry a load
  • experimenting with available local materials, tools and equipment to solve problems requiring forces including identifying inputs (what goes in to the system), processes (what happens within the system) and outputs (what comes out of the system), for example designing and testing a container or parachute that will keep an egg intact when dropped from a height

  VCDSTC024 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Technologies Contexts | Engineering principles and systems

• Technologies | Design and Technologies: Learning in Design and Technologies

  In Design and Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of creating designed solutions for personal, domestic and global settings for a sustainable future. For younger children, this usually involves personal and family settings, where there is an immediate, direct and tangible...

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