Design and Technologies
Knowledge and understanding
Technologies and society
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AC9TDE8K01
analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDE8K02
analyse the impact of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures
Written for Years 7 and 8
Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems
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AC9TDE8K03
analyse how force, motion and energy are used to manipulate and control engineered systems
Written for Years 7 and 8
Technologies context: Food and fibre production
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AC9TDE8K04
analyse how food and fibre are produced in managed environments and how these can become sustainable
Written for Years 7 and 8
Technologies context: Food specialisations
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AC9TDE8K05
analyse how properties of foods determine preparation and presentation techniques when designing solutions for healthy eating
Written for Years 7 and 8
Technologies context: Materials and technologies specialisations
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AC9TDE8K06
analyse how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions
Written for Years 7 and 8
Processes and production skills
Investigating and defining
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AC9TDE8P01
analyse needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate and select materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to create designed solutions
Written for Years 7 and 8
Generating and designing
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AC9TDE8P02
generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
Written for Years 7 and 8
Producing and implementing
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AC9TDE8P03
select, justify and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment, skills and processes to safely make designed solutions
Written for Years 7 and 8
Evaluating
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AC9TDE8P04
develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
Written for Years 7 and 8
Collaborating and managing
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AC9TDE8P05
develop project plans to individually and collaboratively manage time, cost and production of designed solutions
Written for Years 7 and 8
Digital Technologies
Knowledge and understanding
Digital systems
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AC9TDI8K01
explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8K02
investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
Written for Years 7 and 8
Processes and production skills
Acquiring, managing and analysing data
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AC9TDI8P01
acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P02
analyse and visualise data using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P03
model and query the attributes of objects and events using structured data
Written for Years 7 and 8
Investigating and defining
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AC9TDI8P04
define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
Written for Years 7 and 8
Generating and designing
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AC9TDI8P05
design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P06
trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P07
design the user experience of a digital system
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P08
generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
Written for Years 7 and 8
Producing and implementing
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AC9TDI8P09
implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
Written for Years 7 and 8
Evaluating
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AC9TDI8P10
evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact
Written for Years 7 and 8
Collaborating and managing
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AC9TDI8P11
select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P12
select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects
Written for Years 7 and 8
Privacy and security
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AC9TDI8P13
explain how multi-factor authentication protects an account when the password is compromised and identify phishing and other cyber security threats
Written for Years 7 and 8
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AC9TDI8P14
investigate and manage the digital footprint existing systems and student solutions collect and assess if the data is essential to their purpose
Written for Years 7 and 8
Other Year 7 learning areas
Questions teachers ask
- What do students learn in Year 7 Technologies?
- The Australian Curriculum v9 has 29 Technologies content descriptions for Year 7 (some are written for a band of years: Years 7 and 8). They are listed on this page with their codes.
- How do I plan a Year 7 Technologies lesson for a content description?
- Choose "Plan this" next to the content description. Heapso opens a lesson plan set to Year 7 Technologies with that code linked, so the plan is built around it. You can change anything before Pip writes.