*Please note this book is available in hard copy format only and is not able to be photocopied.
Digital Technologies: Years 3 – 4 Student Workbook is an excellent resource for teaching an in-depth understanding of the Middle Primary Years Digital Technology curriculum. It is filled with activity sheets to accompany our Digitial Technologies Series: Digital Technologies: Years 3 – 4. This activity-based resource aims to make lesson planning and marking easy with each student having their own workbook. This also makes progress monitoring easier.
The activity sheets have been designed so that students will show their engagement with key concepts by: cutting and pasting, highlighting, ticking, crossing, writing, tracing, drawing, matching, numbering, circling, and through discussion.
The activities within the Digital Technologies: Years 3 – 4 Student Workbook have been specifically targeted at students in Years 3 and 4. It has been carefully and meaningfully illustrated and clearly set out, so this resource is age-appropriate and will be an excellent addition to your teaching resources collection.
This workbook is used in conjunction with the Digital Technologies Teachers’ Manual.
The book contains the following sections: Section One: Digital Systems and Devices explores the evolution of digital systems over time, how computers work, why they are important and examines peripheral devices and their everyday uses.
Section Two: Data on Computers explores the concept of data, examining digital data, and the various ways it is can be collected and represented.
Section Three: Problem Solving with Algorithms explores how digital systems are programmed with step-by-step instructions to help solve problems and complete tasks. It then explores advanced algorithms using branching decision trees and provides online examples of how algorithms are created.
Section Four: Information Systems and Ethics investigates the safe use of the internet and explores its role and functions, with a focus on ‘netiquette’ and ethics.
Through an array of digital learning ideas and hands-on activities/worksheets, as well as reflection tools, students gain a thorough understanding of Digital Technology covering the Year 3/4 Curriculum Outcomes. The tasks have cross-curricular links to subject areas such as Health and Physical Education, English, Science and HASS, as well as Cross-Curricular Priorities such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures and Sustainability.
Authors: Elli Hayward & Alana Meuleman