AC9TDI6K04 Year 5 Technologies

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary)

Elaborations

• 1 making collaboratively a long thread with beads representing binary for the letters that spell the Country/Place name in the local First Nations language and English, and could be displayed as a ‘binary banner’ as an Acknowledgement of Country that we are on the Traditional Lands of the Peoples
• 2 demonstrating that an on/off state in a circuit can represent the digits one and zero, and this is how digital systems represent data
• 3 recognising how the answer to a yes/no question can be represented using on/off states, for example switching a light on or off in a circuit or a long or short dash (beep) in Morse code

Related Achievement Standards