What do students learn in Year 5 Technologies?

The Australian Curriculum v9 has 24 Technologies content descriptions for Year 5 (some are written for a band of years: Years 5 and 6). They are listed on this page with their codes.

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Year 5 Technologies in the Australian Curriculum

24 content descriptions from Version 9.0. Choose "Plan this" to open a lesson plan set up for that content description.

Design and Technologies

Knowledge and understanding

Technologies and society

AC9TDE6K01
explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments
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Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems

AC9TDE6K02
explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system
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Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations

AC9TDE6K03
explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments
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AC9TDE6K04
explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating
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Technologies context: Materials and technologies specialisations

AC9TDE6K05
explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions
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Processes and production skills

Investigating and defining

AC9TDE6P01
investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
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Generating and designing

AC9TDE6P02
generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
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Producing and implementing

AC9TDE6P03
select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
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Evaluating

AC9TDE6P04
negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
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Collaborating and managing

AC9TDE6P05
develop project plans that include consideration of resources to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
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Digital Technologies

Knowledge and understanding

Digital systems

AC9TDI6K01
investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function
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AC9TDI6K02
examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data
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Data representation

AC9TDI6K03
explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers
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AC9TDI6K04
explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary)
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Processes and production skills

Investigating and defining

AC9TDI6P01
define problems with given or co-developed design criteria and by creating user stories
Written for Years 5 and 6
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Generating and designing

AC9TDI6P02
design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
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AC9TDI6P03
design a user interface for a digital system
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AC9TDI6P04
generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs
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Producing and implementing

AC9TDI6P05
implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input
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Evaluating

AC9TDI6P06
evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact
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Collaborating and managing

AC9TDI6P07
select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions
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AC9TDI6P08
select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
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Privacy and security

AC9TDI6P09
access multiple personal accounts using unique passphrases and explain the risks of password re-use
Written for Years 5 and 6
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AC9TDI6P10
explain the creation and permanence of their digital footprint and consider privacy when collecting user data
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Elaborations and achievement standards on the Australian Curriculum website

Other Year 5 learning areas

Questions teachers ask

What do students learn in Year 5 Technologies?: The Australian Curriculum v9 has 24 Technologies content descriptions for Year 5 (some are written for a band of years: Years 5 and 6). They are listed on this page with their codes.
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