AC9TDI8P04 Year 7 Technologies

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories

Elaborations

• 1 framing a problem in terms of what we know, why it is important and the outcome we want, for example matching the items in your fridge to possible recipes to reduce food waste
• 2 asking a series of questions and sub-questions to understand the problem and breaking it down into manageable parts, for example “How do we keep track of what items are in the pantry? Are there any dietary requirements that need to be considered?”
• 3 using a template such as "As a , I want so that ", for example "As a user with a visual impairment I want to be able to get the news on my smartphone so that I can keep up with my world"
• 4 making predictions about future population distribution of First Nations Australians based on identified trends, for example analysing and visualising data using spreadsheets and databases on their population growth in metropolitan areas

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