TEACHER RESOURCE FOR AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: TECHNOLOGIES SUBJECT:Digital Technologies STRAND: Processes and Production Skills BAND LEVEL: Year 5 & 6 CONTENT DESCRIPTION: Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative design. ACTDEK020 (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015h)

Are you tired of the same old…. Do you need assess your students? ORAL PRESENTATIONS TESTS PORTFOLIOS PROJECTS EXAMS QUIZZES ROLE PLAYS DIORAMAS BOOK REPORTS POSTERS What if you could assess 2 learning areas at the same time?

Join 2 or more Learning Areas together and cover extra Content Descriptions! Imagine having a resource that adds an extra Learning Area to an assessment piece! GEOGRAPH Y VISUAL ARTS LANGUAGES DANCE MATHS HPE SCIENCE MUSIC HISTORY VISUAL ARTS It’s easy! Pick a Learning Area……any Learning Area!

Here’s an example I want to assess the Learning Area of Science for Year Level 6 using the following Content Descriptions Science Understanding ACSSU095 Chemical Sciences Changes to materials can be reversible, such as melting, freezing, evaporating; or irreversible, such as burning and rusting. Science as a Human Endeavour ACSHE100 Use and influence of science Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to solve problems that directly affect peoples’ lives. Science Inquiry Skills ACSIS110 Communication Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts. (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015f)

I want to assess, but what’s a different way of the students showing what they know and understand? How can I assess other learning areas at the same time? Images from Clip Art

What about getting the students to design and build a website? The students can use the skills and knowledge that they have gained. So where did they get these skills and knowledge? Images from Clip Art

Australian Curriculum: Technologies That’s where! CLICK HEREHERE CLICK HEREHERE (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015i) Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015g)

What Content Description will I use? What about a Rubric? And the task Sheet?

Technologies ACTDIP018 Digital Technologies - Processes and Production Skills Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs. The Content Description comes from the Australian Curriculum learning area of Technologies. Technologies has two separate and distinct subjects, Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies. Digital Technologies has two Strands, Knowledge and Understanding and Processes and Production Skills. The Content Description this assessment package uses is from the Digital Technologies strand of Processes and Production Skills. (ACARA, 2015h)

It’s like putting a jigsaw puzzle together! Follow these steps! STEP 1 Choose a Learning Area that you need to assess. In my example, I’ve chosen Science. Here are the Content Descriptions I need to assess. (ACARA, 2015f)

You may already have a rubric developed for the Learning Area you have chosen. If not you will need to develop one. Here is my Science Rubric that I had already developed. STEP 2 (ACARA, 2015f)

STEP 3 Take the Digital Technologies - Processes and Production Skills Content Description ACTDIP018 Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs. Look at the Rubric and ensure that you have taught the content and skills used to assess this Content Description. (ACARA, 2015h)

STEP 4 Use the Rubric Template provided. Add your Content Descriptions and how you will be evaluating student achievement. Don’t forget to add the title. (ACARA, 2015f, 2015h)

STEP 5 Use the Task Sheet Template provided and add your Learning Outcomes, Due Date and Checkpoints.

STEP 6 Print the sheets out, staple them together and handout to your students. (ACARA, 2015f, 2015h)

This resource allows for differentiation to meet the diverse learning needs of students by being easily modified. Areas of modification for this resource include timeframe for completion; actual content being assessed from another learning area; having variable specifications on what is required for the webpage for example, how many pages, include other multimedia and embedding links; and changing the actual assessment piece to another format such as a PowerPoint presentation. DIFFERENTIATION Images from Clip Art

Students can develop knowledge and skills from the Australian Curriculum general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking and Ethical understanding. These general capabilities support the goals from the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians that endeavours to develop successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed. GENERAL CAPABILITIES (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015a) Images from Clip Art (Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs, 2008)

The cross-curriculum priorities of the Australian Curriculum, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia and Sustainability are not directly integrated with the Digital Technologies’ content description chosen for this resource. Cross-curriculum priorities can be integrated with the second learning area being assessed. Embedded cross- curriculum priorities, from the other learning areas content descriptions, assist in making the content relevant and contemporary. CROSS-CURRICULUM PRIORITIES (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015a) Images from Clip Art

The following slides have examples of Content Descriptions from several Learning Areas that can be integrated. The assessment package is not limited to these, it’s up to you. You need choose your Content Descriptions, develop task to add as well as a rubric. Put it all together and you can assess two Learning Areas at one time. What a time saver! EXAMPLES (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015a) Images from Clip Art

This resource can integrate content descriptions from any learning area of the Australian Curriculum for assessment: Year 5 English KEY LEARNING AREA INTERGRATION English / Year 5 / Literature / Literature and context / ACELT1608 Content Description Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts Elaborations describing how aspects of literature, for example visuals, symbolic elements, dialogue and character descriptions, can convey information about cultural elements, such as beliefs, traditions and customs identifying variability within cultural contexts in literary texts, recognising the diversity of people’s experiences within a cultural group such as differences in setting and lifestyle between urban and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015c) Images from Clip Art

This resource can integrate content descriptions from any learning area of the Australian Curriculum for assessment: Year 6 Maths KEY LEARNING AREA INTERGRATION Mathematics / Year 6 / Statistics and Probability / Chance / ACMSP145 Content Description Conduct chance experiments with both small and large numbers of trials using appropriate digital technologies Elaborations conducting repeated trials of chance experiments, identifying the variation between trials and realising that the results tend to the prediction with larger numbers of trials (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015j) Images from Clip Art

This resource can integrate content descriptions from any learning area of the Australian Curriculum for assessment: Year 5 History KEY LEARNING AREA INTERGRATION Humanities and Social Sciences / History / Year 5 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding / The Australian colonies / ACHHK097 Content Description The role that a significant individual or group played in shaping a colony; for example, explorers, farmers, entrepreneurs, artists, writers, humanitarians, religious and political leaders, and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples. Elaborations investigating the contribution or significance of an individual or group to the shaping of a colony in the 1800’s (for example groups such as explorers or pastoralists; or individuals such as Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, J. G. Macdonald, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, Caroline Chisholm, Saint Mary Mackillop, Peter Lalor, James Unaipon) exploring the motivations and actions of an individual or group that shaped a colony (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015e) Images from Clip Art

This resource can integrate content descriptions from any learning area of the Australian Curriculum for assessment: Year 6 Geography KEY LEARNING AREA INTERGRATION Humanities and Social Sciences / Geography / Year 6 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / ACHGK035 Content Description The various connections Australia has with other countries and how these connections change people and places Elaborations researching connections between Australia and countries in the Asia region, for example, in terms of trade, migration, tourism, aid, education, defence or cultural influences; and explaining the effects of at least one of these connections on their own place and another place in Australia exploring the provision of Australian government or non-government aid to a country in the Asia region or elsewhere in the world and analysing its effects on places in that country (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015d) Images from Clip Art

References Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015a). F-10 Curriculum: General capabilities in the Australian Curriculum. Version 7.2. Retrieved 01/03/2015,, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015b). F-10 Curriculum: Cross-curriculum priorities. Version 7.2. Retrieved 9/03/2015,, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015c). F-10 Curriculum: English Years 5 Version 7.2. Retrieved 01/03/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015d). F-10 Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences: Geography. Version 7.2. Retrieved 21/03/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015e). F-10 Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences: History. Version 7.4. Retrieved 14/04/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015f). F-10 Curriculum: Science. Version , from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015g). F-10 Curriculum: Technologies Digital Technologies Version 7.2. Retrieved 01/03/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015h). F-10 Curriculum: Technologies Digital Technologies Years 5 and 6. Version 7.2. Retrieved 01/03/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015i). F-10 Curriculum: Technologies Rationale. Version 7.2. Retrieved 01/03/2015, from Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority. (2015j). F - 10 Curriculum: Mathematics Version 7.3. Retrieved 03/03/2015, from Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training and Youth Affairs. (2008). Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians.. Retrieved 05/03/2015, from