Technologies Year 6

Technologies

Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use ACTDEK019 Investigate how electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system ACTDEK020 Investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments and prepared to enable people to grow and be healthy ACTDEK021 Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use ACTDEK023 Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions ACTDEP024 Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques ACTDEP025 Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions ACTDEP026 Negotiate criteria for success that include sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions ACTDEP027 Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively ACTDEP028 Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data ACTDIK014 Examine how whole numbers are used to represent all data in digital systems ACTDIK015 Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information ACTDIP016 Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements drawing on previously solved problems ACTDIP017 Design a user interface for a digital system ACTDIP018 Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) ACTDIP019 Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input ACTDIP020 Explain how student solutions and existing information systems are sustainable and meet current and future local community needs ACTDIP021 Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols ACTDIP022

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