This activity was designed to meet the Australian Curriculum: (as at 5/2016)

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This activity focus's on the green hightlighted sections.

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Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills content description:

Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems (ACTDIP004)

 

Complimentary Digital Technologies Knowledge and Understanding content description:

Identify, use and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose (ACTDIK001)

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ICT General Capability

This unit of work provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of the characteristics of a digital system (a digital camera). They investigate, communicate and create digital solutions. Students will learn to logically organise data. Students decide how to generate efficient and effective digital solutions. This unit of work sees the students developing and applying ICT knowledge and skills to create and communicate information. They gain skills in using digital hardware while developing design ideas and generating plans.

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Crital and Creative Thinking General Capability

Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they imagine and generate ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems. Critical and creative thinking are integral to activities, and this unit of work requires students to think broadly and use logic and imaginative skills.

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Additional teacher support can be provided to those students that require it throughout this activity such as helping the students choose which 2 points within the school they can take pictures of and walking that path with the students to help select the important structures to take pictures of.

 

This activity will see the students’ representing a sequence of steps. During the part of the activity when students swap their pictures, they will be required to solve a simple problem, linking to the content descriptor. Students are required to describe how they solved the problem with an explanation of how they determined which order to put the pictures into to make the correct sequence.

 

The use of a digital camera sees the students use and explore a digital system. They will need to master how to take a picture so that it captures essential aspects to make sense for others.

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The activity that students undertake here would link well with English: Language: Language variation and change (ACELA1460), as students learn that visual representations can be used to communicate an idea and can be a form of communication with it’s own purpose and audience. They will also be constructing a text featuring visual elements, encompassing the English: Creating texts (ACELY1674) content descriptor.

 

A strong link to the Visual Arts is also evident. Through this activity, students become aware of how to present their ideas through visual representation, leading into a unit on viewing other artists, craftspeople and designers’ work, an overarching outcome of the Visual Arts for Foundation to Year 2. Specifically, the content of Using and experimenting with different technologies to make artwork (ACAVAM108) is covered.

 

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