Year 4 SyllabusTest
- Rationale
- Aims
- Organisation
- Student Diversity
- Ways of Teaching
- Ways of Teaching Video
- Ways of Assessing
- General Capabilities
- Cross-Curriculum Priorities
- Glossary
- Technologies Glossary
- Technologies Scope and Sequence
Technologies Scope and Sequence- ABLEWA Technologies Scope & Sequence
- ABLEWA Technologies Scope & Sequence
Year 4 Syllabus
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study both Technologies subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8.
Year Level Description
In Year 4, students further develop understanding and skills in computational thinking, such as categorising and outlining procedures. They have opportunities to create a range of solutions, such as interactive adventures that involve user choice, modelling simplified real world systems.
Students explore digital systems in terms of their components, and peripheral devices, such as digital microscopes, cameras and interactive whiteboards. They collect, manipulate and interpret data, developing a capacity to use data and their representations to communicate ideas.
Students learn to define problems and to deduce and record conclusions through text and diagrams. They have opportunities to experiment with refining designing skills, describing their own algorithms that support branching (choice of options) and user input. Students implement solutions using appropriate software, including visual programming environments that use a variety of graphical elements. They define solutions to meet specific needs and consider society's use of digital systems that meet community requirements.
Students explain the safety aspects of communicating ideas and information using digital technologies.
Processes and production skills
Collecting, managing and analysing data
Collect and present different types of data for a specific purpose using software (ACTDIP009)
Digital implementation
Use simple visual programming environments that include a sequence of steps (algorithm) involving decisions made by the user (branching) (ACTDIP011)
Create and communicate ideas and information safely, using agreed protocols (netiquette) (ACTDIP013)
Creating solutions by:
Investigating and defining
Define a sequence of steps to design a solution for a given task (WATPPS21)
Identify and choose the appropriate resources from a given set (WATPPS22)
Designing
Develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using annotated drawings and appropriate technical terms (WATPPS23)
Producing and implementing
Select, and safely use, appropriate components and equipment to make solutions (WATPPS24)
Evaluating
Use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions (WATPPS25)
Collaborating and managing
Work independently, or collaboratively when required, to plan, create and communicate ideas and information for solutions (WATPPS26)
Achievement standard
At Standard, students identify different purposes for digital systems and peripheral devices, recognising they can store and transmit a variety of data. They use simple visual programming, including a sequence of steps (algorithms) and branching, students represent data in a range of ways. They create and communicate ideas and information and use software to collect and represent different types of data, using agreed protocols (netiquette).
In Digital Technologies, students use algorithms (sequenced steps) to design a solution for a given digital task. They identify and choose the appropriate resources from a given set. Students develop and communicate design ideas and decisions, using annotated drawings and appropriate technical terms. They select and safely use appropriate components and equipment to make solutions. Students use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions for a given digital task. They work independently, or collaboratively, to plan, safely create and communicate ideas and information for solutions.
The syllabus is based on the requirement that all students will study both Technologies subjects from Pre-primary to Year 8.
Year Level Description
In Year 4, students further develop understanding and skills in computational thinking, such as categorising and outlining procedures. They have opportunities to create a range of solutions, such as interactive adventures that involve user choice, modelling simplified real world systems.
Students explore digital systems in terms of their components, and peripheral devices, such as digital microscopes, cameras and interactive whiteboards. They collect, manipulate and interpret data, developing a capacity to use data and their representations to communicate ideas.
Students learn to define problems and to deduce and record conclusions through text and diagrams. They have opportunities to experiment with refining designing skills, describing their own algorithms that support branching (choice of options) and user input. Students implement solutions using appropriate software, including visual programming environments that use a variety of graphical elements. They define solutions to meet specific needs and consider society's use of digital systems that meet community requirements.
Students explain the safety aspects of communicating ideas and information using digital technologies.