Knowledge and understanding
Technologies
Explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments
AC9TDE6K01
Explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system
AC9TDE6K02
Explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments
AC9TDE6K03
Explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating
AC9TDE6K04
Explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions
AC9TDE6K05
Investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function
AC9TDI6K01
Examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data
AC9TDI6K02
Explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers
AC9TDI6K03
Explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary)
AC9TDI6K04
Processes and production skills
Technologies
Investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
AC9TDE6P01
Generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
AC9TDE6P02
Select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
AC9TDE6P03
Negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
AC9TDE6P04
Develop project plans that include consideration of resources to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
AC9TDE6P05
Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI6P01
Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
AC9TDI6P02
Design a user interface for a digital system
AC9TDI6P03
Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs
AC9TDI6P04
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input
AC9TDI6P05
Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact
AC9TDI6P06
Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions
AC9TDI6P07
Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
AC9TDI6P08
Access multiple personal accounts using unique passphrases and explain the risks of password re-use
AC9TDI6P09
Explain the creation and permanence of their digital footprint and consider privacy when collecting user data
AC9TDI6P10