Year 5 Technologies ASTECTDEY56

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 5 Technologies by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

By the end of Year 6 students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. For each of the 3 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions. Students select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas to an audience using technical terms and graphical representation techniques. Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:

Knowledge and understanding

Technologies and society

AC9TDE6K01 explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments

Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems

AC9TDE6K02 explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system

Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations

AC9TDE6K03 explain how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments AC9TDE6K04 explain how the characteristics of foods influence selection and preparation for healthy eating

Technologies context: Materials and technologies specialisations

AC9TDE6K05 explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions

Processes and production skills

Investigating and defining

AC9TDE6P01 investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions

Generating and designing

AC9TDE6P02 generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools

Producing and implementing

AC9TDE6P03 select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions

Evaluating

AC9TDE6P04 negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions

Collaborating and managing

AC9TDE6P05 develop project plans that include consideration of resources to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions

At a Glance

Strand	Substrand	CDs	Elaborations
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies and society	1	6
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems	1	5
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies context: Food and fibre production; Food specialisations	2	11
Knowledge and understanding	Technologies context: Materials and technologies specialisations	1	6
Processes and production skills	Investigating and defining	1	6
Processes and production skills	Generating and designing	1	6
Processes and production skills	Producing and implementing	1	4
Processes and production skills	Evaluating	1	5
Processes and production skills	Collaborating and managing	1	3
Total		10	52

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 5 Design Technologies?

By the end of Year 6 students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. For each of the 3 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions. Students select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas to an audience using technical terms and graphical representation techniques. Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.

How many Content Descriptors support this standard?

10 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Knowledge and understanding: 1, Knowledge and understanding: 1, Knowledge and understanding: 2, Knowledge and understanding: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1, Processes and production skills: 1).

How does this compare to Year 3?

The Year 3 Design Technologies standard (ASTECTDEY34) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 5 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 3.

Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?

Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.