Design and Technologies
Knowledge and understanding
Technologies and society
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AC9TDE10K01
analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical, security and sustainability factors to innovate and improve products, services and environments
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDE10K02
analyse the impact of innovation, enterprise and emerging technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures
Written for Years 9 and 10
Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems
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AC9TDE10K03
analyse and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to control engineered systems
Written for Years 9 and 10
Technologies context: Food and fibre production
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AC9TDE10K04
analyse and make judgements on the ethical, secure and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre enterprises
Written for Years 9 and 10
Technologies context: Food specialisations
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AC9TDE10K05
analyse and make judgements on how the sensory and functional properties of food influence the design and preparation of sustainable food solutions for healthy eating
Written for Years 9 and 10
Technologies context: Materials and technologies specialisations
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AC9TDE10K06
analyse and make judgements on how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions
Written for Years 9 and 10
Processes and production skills
Investigating and defining
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AC9TDE10P01
analyse needs or opportunities for designing; develop design briefs; and investigate, analyse and select materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to create designed solutions
Written for Years 9 and 10
Generating and designing
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AC9TDE10P02
apply innovation and enterprise skills to generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions, including using digital tools
Written for Years 9 and 10
Producing and implementing
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AC9TDE10P03
select, justify, test and use suitable technologies, skills and processes, and apply safety procedures to safely make designed solutions
Written for Years 9 and 10
Evaluating
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AC9TDE10P04
develop design criteria independently including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
Written for Years 9 and 10
Collaborating and managing
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AC9TDE10P05
develop project plans for intended purposes and audiences to individually and collaboratively manage projects, taking into consideration time, cost, risk, processes and production of designed solutions
Written for Years 9 and 10
Digital Technologies
Knowledge and understanding
Digital systems
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AC9TDI10K01
investigate how hardware and software manage, control and secure access to data in networked digital systems
Written for Years 9 and 10
Data representation
Processes and production skills
Acquiring, managing and analysing data
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AC9TDI10P01
develop techniques to acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P02
analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends and outliers
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P03
model and query entities and their relationships using structured data
Written for Years 9 and 10
Investigating and defining
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AC9TDI10P04
define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by interviewing stakeholders to create user stories
Written for Years 9 and 10
Generating and designing
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AC9TDI10P05
design algorithms involving logical operators and represent them as flowcharts and pseudocode
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P06
validate algorithms and programs by comparing their output against a range of test cases
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P07
design and prototype the user experience of a digital system
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P08
generate, modify, communicate and critically evaluate alternative designs
Written for Years 9 and 10
Producing and implementing
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AC9TDI10P09
implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language
Written for Years 9 and 10
Evaluating
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AC9TDI10P10
evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories, possible future impact and opportunities for enterprise
Written for Years 9 and 10
Collaborating and managing
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AC9TDI10P11
select and use emerging digital tools and advanced features to create and communicate interactive content for a diverse audience
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P12
use simple project management tools to plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects, accounting for risks and responsibilities
Written for Years 9 and 10
Privacy and security
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AC9TDI10P13
develop cyber security threat models, and explore a software, user or software supply chain vulnerability
Written for Years 9 and 10
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AC9TDI10P14
apply the Australian Privacy Principles to critique and manage the digital footprint that existing systems and student solutions collect
Written for Years 9 and 10
Other Year 9 learning areas
Questions teachers ask
- What do students learn in Year 9 Technologies?
- The Australian Curriculum v9 has 28 Technologies content descriptions for Year 9 (some are written for a band of years: Years 9 and 10). They are listed on this page with their codes.
- How do I plan a Year 9 Technologies lesson for a content description?
- Choose "Plan this" next to the content description. Heapso opens a lesson plan set to Year 9 Technologies with that code linked, so the plan is built around it. You can change anything before Pip writes.