AC9TDI6K04 Year 5 Technologies

AC9TDI6K04 – Year 5 Technologies: Data representation

Strand

Knowledge and understanding

Substrand

Data representation

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• 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
• demonstrating that an on/off state in a circuit can represent the digits one and zero, and this is how digital systems represent data
• 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASTECTDIY56

Year 5 Technologies Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6 students develop and modify digital solutions, and define problems and evaluate solutions using user stories and design criteria. They process data and show how digital systems represent data. Students design algorithms involving complex branching and iteration and implement them as visual programs including variables. They securely access and use multiple digital systems and describe their components and how they interact to process and transmit data. Students select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, applying agreed conventions and behaviours. They identify their digital footprint and recognise its permanence.