Foundation - Level 2: Overview
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Foundation to Level 2 Achievement Standard (From VCAA F -10 Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence website)
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- By the end of Level 2, students identify how common digital systems are used to meet specific purposes.
- Students use digital systems to represent simple patterns in data in different ways and collect familiar data and display them to convey meaning.
- Students design solutions to simple problems using a sequence of steps and decisions. They create and organise ideas and information using information systems and share these in safe online environments.
Identified achievement outcomes selected from the VCAA Scope & Sequence
DigitalNinja Modules
Digital Systems
- Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose.
Unit 1: My Digital World
- Awareness of what digital systems are and how they are everywhere in our modern world.
- What are digital devices.
- Words often used when discussing digital systems
Data and Information
- Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams.
- Collect, explore and sort data, and use digital systems to present the data creatively
- Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose.
Unit 2: Discovering Data
- What is data?
- How does a computer make (calculate) data.
- Computer memory
- Input and output
- Displaying data as text, images (pictures) and diagrams.
- Compose a collage that demonstrates the use digital systems to collect, explore, sort and present the data creatively.
- Words often used when using data.
Data and Information
- Independently and with others create and organise ideas and information using information systems, and share these with known people in safe online environments.
Unit 3: Software and Data.
- Difference between "hardware" and "software"
- Different types of software.
- How software produces data.
- Expressing data creatively with sound, text, and images.
- Data handling and representation.
- Words often used when using Apps.
Digital Solutions
- Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
Unit 4: Digital Solutions.
- Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
- What is code
- What is an alogorithm
- Use simple code to sequence and problem solve using the following Apps
- Daisy Dinosaur
- LightBot
- Scratch Jnr
Digital Solutions
- Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
Unit 5: Hands On Coding fun.
- Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
- Design a challenge for a robot using coded sequencing.
- Control a simple robot to solve a challenge.
Safe Online Information Systems
- Independently and with others create and organise ideas and information using information systems, and share these with known people in safe online environments.
- Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs.
Unit 6: Cyber Heroes.
Learn about online use and safety by following our Cyber heroes who will teach you about.
- Good posture, What the Internet is and Safe Searching with Kiddle.co
- Important online safety tips.
- Netiquette. Being a good digital citizen
- Takedown the online bullies
- Play in Hectors world or visit Zippeps circus