The same standards in consideration with the necessary adjustments to theway in which they are taught and how they demonstrate their learning.

The way in which the lessons are conducted need toensure those with physical disabilities canparticipate and achieve on the same basis as theirpeers.

EAL/D learners enter school atvarious ages and stages of learningEnglish.

There are a significant number of students who are not literate in their first language, and have had little or no formal schooling.

The aims of technologies in the Australian Curriculum are thesame for all students, however EAL/D learners must achieve thesestandards whilst also learning a new language and learningcontent.

Using the Australian Curriculum teachers are ableto cater for individual learning needs for suchstudents.

This can be done through learning in moredepth, emphasising specific areas and focusingon crosscurriculum priorities.

Students will develop skills to manage projects tosuccessful completion

A holistic approach to the identification andsolving of problems where the focal points aretreated as components of a system.

Involves the use of strategies for understanding design needs andopportunities that best meet the criteria for success.

A problem-solving method that is applied tocreate solutions that can be implemented usingdigital technologies.

Students identify and explore the understandings and knowledge of technologyused by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in past, present andfuture applications.

Students explore the links between Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander People and the environments, histories, cultures andidentities and use it within Design and Technology and DigitalTechnology to create products.

Students investigate the links between Australia and Asia and how Australia hascontributed to the creation of products and services.

Using this area of the curriculum, students generate ideas and concepts, create solutions for sustainabile economic, environmental and social impacts.

This area of the curriculum narrows down into the knowledge,understanding and skills necessary to design actions that areeffective towards sustainability.

Technologies and society

the use, development andimpact of technologies inpeople’s lives

Technologies contexts

•technologies and design acrossa range of technologies contexts

Digital systems

•the components of digital systems:hardware, software and networks and theiruse

Representation of data

•how data are represented andstructured symbolically

Creating designed solutions by: •investigating•generating •producing •evaluating•collaborating and managing

Collecting, managing andanalysing data Creating digitalsolutions by:

•defining •designing•implementing •evaluating

•collaborating and managing