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Digital Technologies

This Year 5/6 Digital Technologies, ‘Sustainable now, is a sustainable future,’ is a science and Technology unit designed to provide students with opportunities to:

  • Evaluate different information systems by analysing and identifying how these are sustainable at present and in the future
     

  • Identify the many functions of different information systems and how they can be improved to create a more sustainable future
     

  • Compare past and present information systems in terms of economic, environmental and social sustainability, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
     

  • Explain why information systems are so readily available and why people rely so heavily on them
     

  • Explore the impact of these communicate networks at a local, national and global level.
     

  • Develop ways to improve the information systems to create a more sustainable future

Year 5/6: Sustainable Now, is a Sustainable future

Notes for the Teacher:

  • This unit is to be taught over 6 weeks
     

  • Students will be engaging with a variety of different activities that are hands on and student centred to meet the needs of the different learners
     

  • Students will be working with the website: kid blog. Where they are to write an entry in it after each lesson
     

  • Assessment will be a multimodal assessment where students will present in front of the class their findings in relation to the different technological systems used throughout the ages and how they have been modified to create a more sustainable future.

Useful Links:

Kid Blog - http://kidblog.org/home/

Interactive Website - http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ate10.sci.engin.design.techovertime/technology-over-time/

Teaching Resources

Links to the Australian Curriculum:

Knowledge and Understanding:
Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014)

Processes and Production Skills:
Explain how student solutions and existing information systems are sustainable and meet current and future local community needs(ACTDIP021)

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