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    DIY micro:bit metal detector: years 5-6

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    This PDF outlines a way in which students can use micro:bits and magnets to create and program metal detectors.

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    Books for exploring Digital Technologies concepts

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    This PDF provides a list of suggested books or similar that identify and discuss key concepts, key ideas and related ways of thinking about Digital Technologies.

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    Makey Makey interactive poster: years 3-4

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    This PDF provides instructions for students to create an interactive poster using a Makey Makey and the visual programming language Scratch. A Makey Makey is an electronic circuit board, which, when connected to a computer, allows everyday objects to function as keyboards.

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    Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies: years 3-4

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    This PDF provides a line of sight from content descriptions to achievement standards.

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    Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies key concepts mapping: years 7-8

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    This PDF uses colour coding to provide a line of sight between key concepts, content descriptions and achievement standards in the Digital Technologies subject in the Australian Curriculum.

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    Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies Years 3–4 assessment task: Living and non-living things booklet

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    This PDF is a booklet that accompanies the years 3-4 assessment task, Classifying living and non-living things.

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    Archived newsletters

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    This webpage features archived newsletters from the Digital Technologies in Focus project. The newsletters include information about schools' projects, assessment tasks, the Australian Curriculum and resources.

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    Computational thinking poster

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    This infographic provides an overview overview of the concepts related to computational thinking.

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    ACARA sample assessment task: years 3-4: Classifying living or non-living things

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    This resource provides strategies for assessing aspects of the Digital Technologies subject in the Australian Curriculum that relate to data using contexts from other learning areas and General Capabilities, including Science, Mathematics, Numeracy and Literacy. The resource includes an assessment planner and rubric, as ...

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    Understanding algorithms and the smiley face biscuit challenge: years F-2

    • TLF-IDA002176

    This PDF provides suggestions for introducing students to algorithms by sequencing words, images and actions.

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    Micro:bit missions: Take a chance on me (Integrating Mathematics): years 6-8

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    This resource comprises two activities that allow students to explore the concept of chance in Mathematics. Students use computational thinking while using a micro:bit as a digital system to generate and collect data. Students implement programs involving branching and iteration in visual and general-purpose programming languages.

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    Classroom ideas: Micro:bit environmental measurement (visual and general-purpose programming): years 5-8

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    This tutorial shows ways in which environmental factors such as lighting and temperature can be measured and improved using micro:bits and sensor boards, and programmed using pseudocode, visual programming and general-purpose programming.

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    Visual programming with Scratch: years 3-6

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    This comprises a collection of sample activities that incorporate visual programming (Scratch) into teaching and learning programs. They show the possibilities Scratch offers for integration. The projects are incomplete and are designed to be used as samples for inspiration or modification by teachers.

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    Computational thinking in practice: parent and teacher cards: years F-2

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    This set of printable cards describe ways in which computational thinking can be applied when carrying out simple everyday tasks.

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    Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies key concepts mapping - Years 9 and 10

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    This PDF uses colour coding to provide a line of sight between key concepts, content descriptions and achievement standards in the Digital Technologies subject in the Australian Curriculum.

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    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

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    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 ...

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    Create dichotomous keys lesson

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    In this lesson students engage in a hands-on exploration of local diversity. Students research and record local wildlife, learn about biodiversity in Australia, and conduct a ‘bush blitz’. They learn how to create dichotomous keys and translate their keys into a wildlife discovery app prototype. The resource includes links ...

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    Musical number patterns: musical times

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    Make some music by building up rhythms from four instruments. Make a counting rule that matches a pattern on a number line. Select the start number and then select a number to count by. For example, describe a sound pattern where a saxophone waits on the first note, and then plays on every eighth note. Add a second number ...

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    Circus towers: square stacks

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    Work out how many acrobats are needed to form square-shaped human towers. Start by building a square tower with four acrobats: two acrobats in the base layer and two acrobats standing on their shoulders. Examine a table and graph of the total number of acrobats in the towers. Predict the number of acrobats needed to build ...

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    Programming for Water Management

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    This unit of work introduces students to the potential of digital technologies to manage and conserve water resources in Australian agriculture. It assumes that students and teachers have little or no prior programming experience and provides a series of introductory activities to build students' understanding of the basic ...

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