Digital Technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Processes and production skills / Collaborating and managing

Curriculum content descriptions

select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions (AC9TDI6P07)

Elaborations
  • creating achievable steps and timeframes and identifying digital tools needed to produce a solution to a given problem, for example planning what they need to do to create a report on the effectiveness of the schools recycling initiatives
  • locating content through search engines and in documents by revising queries and using required search terms, for example reviewing search results and modifying search terms to make the query more accurate
  • creating appropriate content that reflects planning as well as new external factors, for example uploading a draft of a report on a local government issue to the teacher for feedback as part of an iterative process
  • creating content for a school celebration, for example designing a collaborative spreadsheet that can be used by a small group to plan and cost their graduation party, together with a folder of tagged resources which support the planning
General capabilities
ScOT terms

Publishing

Video

Expert webinar video: In conversation with Paul Mead from She Maps: A wide-ranging discussion from women in Technology and unconscious bias to digital systems and the ethical and safety considerations of using drone technologies

Paul Mead, from STEM education provider She Maps, discusses unconscious bias in young students and how She Maps is spreading the word about women who work with technologies in the field. He discusses digital systems and explains how geospatial systems and geographical information systems are used to collect, analyse and ...

Downloadable

DT Challenge - 5/6 Blockly - Space Invaders

In this coding challenge, students learn about programming in Blockly, including data representation, decomposition, design, branching, iteration, functions, variables, animations, tracing and evaluation.

Text

Beautiful biomes

In this lesson students learn the features of the five main biomes, and use ClassVR headsets and CoSpaces to design and create a virtual biome to explore. They research and identify the features of a biome and then create their own virtual environment. The resource explores the human impacts on biodiversity and explore ...