ICT Capabilities

ENGLISH
NSW Syllabus for the Australian
Curriculum
Stage 2

Discuss issues related to the

responsible use of digital
communication

Plan, draft and publish

imaginative, informative
and persuasive texts containing key
information and supporting details for
a widening range of audiences,
demonstrating increasing control
over text structures and language
features (ACELY1682, ACELY1694)

Create imaginative texts based on

characters, settings and events from
students' own and other cultures using
visual features, for example
perspective, distance & angle
(ACELT1601, ACELT1794)
- experiment with visual, multimodal and
digital processes to represent ideas
encountered in texts

Objective

ICT Strand

Writing and
representing 1

Ethics/Cybersafet
y

Writing and
representing 1

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

Writing and
representing 1

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

ICT Activities

- reread and edit texts for meaning,

appropriate structure, grammatical choices
and punctuation

Experiment with visual, multimodal

and digital processes to represent
ideas encountered in texts
- create imaginative texts based on
characters, settings and events from
students' own and other cultures using
visual features, for example
perspective, distance and angle
(ACELT1601, ACELT1794)

Writing and
representing 1

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

- reread and edit texts for meaning,

appropriate structure, grammatical choices
and punctuation (ACELY1683)

Reread and edit texts for meaning,

appropriate structure, grammatical
choices and punctuation (ACELY1683)
- create imaginative texts based on characters,
settings and events from students' own and
other cultures using visual features, for
example perspective, distance and angle
(ACELT1601, ACELT1794)
- experiment with visual, multimodal and
digital processes to represent ideas
encountered in texts

Use a range of software including word

processing programs to construct, edit

Writing and
representing 1

Handwriting and
using digital
technologies

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating

and publish written text, and select,

edit and place visual, print and audio
elements (ACELY1685, ACELY1697)

Explore the effect of choices

when framing an image, placement of
elements in the image, and salience
on composition of still and moving
images in a range of types of texts
(ACELA1483, ACELA1496)

Creating

Reading and
viewing 2

- identify the features of online texts that

enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
- identify features of online texts that enhance
readability including text, navigation, links,
graphics and layout (ACELA1793)

Investigating
Communicating
Creating

Identify the features of online texts

that enhance navigation (ACELA1790)
- explore the effect of choices when framing an
image, placement of elements in the image,
and salience on composition of still and
moving images in a range of types of texts
(ACELA1483, ACELA1496)
- identify features of online texts that enhance
readability including text, navigation, links,
graphics and layout (ACELA1793)

Identify features of online texts that

enhance readability including text,
navigation, links, graphics and layout
(ACELA1793)

Reading and
viewing 2

Reading and
viewing 2

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

- identify the features of online texts that

enhance navigation (ACELA1790)

Identify and interpret the different

forms of visual information, including
maps, tables, charts,
diagrams, animations and images

Reading and
viewing 2

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating
Creating

Use visual representations, including

those digitally produced, to represent
ideas, experience and information for
different purposes and audiences

Thinking
imaginatively,
creatively and
interpretively

Communicating
Creating

Experiment with visual, multimodal

and digital technologies to represent
aspects of experience and
relationships

Expressing
themselves

Communicating
Creating

Expressing
themselves

Investigating
Communicating
Creating

- respond to short films, documentaries

and multimedia texts that express familiar and
new aspects of the broader world

Respond to short films, documentaries

and multimedia texts that express
familiar and new aspects of the
broader world
- experiment with visual, multimodal and
digital technologies to represent aspects of
experience and relationships

ICT Capabilities
HISTORY

NSW Syllabus for the Australian

Curriculum
Stage 2

Objective

ICT Strand

Using a range of sources, describe and

explain how and why ONE area, eg:
transport, work, education,
entertainment and daily life, has
changed or ONE that has remained the
same in the local area, region or
state/territory since colonial time

Community and
Remembrance

Investigating
Communicating

Investigate, drawing on Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander community
representatives (where possible) and
other sources, the traditional
Aboriginal way of life, focusing on
people, their beliefs, food, shelter,
tools and weapons, customs and
ceremonies, art works, dance, music,
and relationship to Country

First Contacts

First Contacts

Using a range of sources, investigate

Investigating

Investigating

ICT Activities

the everyday life of ONE of the

following who sailed on the First Fleet
and lived in the early colony: a soldier,
convict, ex-convict, official

ICT Capabilities
MATHS
NSW Syllabus for the Australian
Curriculum
Stage 2

Objective

ICT Strand

Select, use and record a variety of

mental strategies, and appropriate
digital technologies, to solve simple
multiplication problems

Number and
Algebra
Multiplication and
Division 1

Communicating
Investigating

Create a table or simple spreadsheet

to record multiplication facts, eg: a
10 10 grid showing multiplication
facts (Communicating)

Number and
Algebra
Multiplication and
Division 2

Communicating
Creating

Check the answer to a word problem

using digital technologies (Reasoning)

Number and
Algebra
Multiplication and
Division 2

Communicating
Investigating

ICT Activities

Explore and use the various date input

and output options of digital
technologies (Communicating)

Measurement and
Geometry
Time 2

Communicating
Investigating

Draw three-dimensional objects using

a computer drawing tool, attempting
to show depth (Communicating)

Measurement and
Geometry
3D Space 2

Communicating
Creating

Investigate different two-dimensional

representations of three-dimensional
objects in the environment, eg: in
Aboriginal art (Communicating)

Measurement and
Geometry
3D Space 2

Communicating
Investigating

Use digital technologies to construct a

design or logo by combining common
shapes (Communicating)

Measurement and
Geometry
2D Space 2

Communicating
Creating

Record the arrangements of common

shapes used to create other shapes, &
the arrangement of shapes formed
after splitting a shape, in
diagrammatic form, with & without the
use of digital technologies

Measurement and
Geometry
2-Dimensional
Space 2

Use digital technologies to create

Measurement and
Geometry

Communicating

Communicating
Creating

designs by copying, pasting, reflecting,

translating and rotating common
shapes (Communicating, Problem
Solving)

2-Dimensional
Space 2

Use digital technologies to create

tessellating designs (Communicating)

Measurement &
Geometry
2-Dimensional
Space 2

Communicating
Creating

Draw the reflection (mirror image) to

complete symmetrical pictures and
shapes, given a line of symmetry, with
and without the use of digital
technologies

Measurement and
Geometry
2-Dimensional
Space 2

Communicating
Creating

Create simple maps and plans using

digital technologies (Communicating)

Measurement &
Geometry
Position 1

Communicating
Creating

Use digital technologies involving

maps, position and paths
(Communicating)

Measurement &
Geometry
Position 1

Communicating
Creating

Use computer software to create a

table to organise collected data, eg: a
spreadsheet (Communicating)

Statistics &
Probability
Data 1

Communicating
Creating

Use graphing software to enter data

Statistics &
Probability

Communicating
Creating

and create column graphs that

represent data (Communicating)

Data 1

Use data in a spreadsheet to create

column graphs with appropriately
labelled axes (Communicating,
Problem Solving)

Statistics &
Probability
Data 2

Communicating
Creating

Interpret and evaluate the

effectiveness of various data displays
found in media and in factual texts,
where displays represent data using a
scale of many-to-one correspondence

Statistics &
Probability
Data 2

Investigating
Communicating
Creating

ICT Capabilities
SCIENCE

NSW Syllabus for the Australian

Curriculum
Stage 2

Objective

ICT Strand

Suggesting appropriate materials,

tools and equipment they could use in
conducting their investigations and
recording their findings, identifying
appropriate safety rules

Skills
Working Scientifically

Investigating
Communicating

Safely using appropriate materials,

tools or equipment to make and
record observations, using formal
measurements and digital
technologies as appropriate

Skills
Working Scientifically

Managing/Operati
ng
Communicating

Using a range of methods including

tables and simple column graphs to
represent data and to identify
patterns and trends, using digital
technologies as appropriate

Skills
Working Scientifically

Communicating
Creating

Using a range of research techniques

to access information relevant to the
task

Skills
Working
Technologically
Skills

Investigating

Communicating

ICT Activities

Using digital technologies and

multimedia for communicating design
ideas

Working
Technologically

Creating

Use appropriate tools and equipment

to collect and record data about some
changes in natural conditions - tides,
daily temperature, rainfall & wind

Knowledge/Understa
nding Natural
Environment Earth
and Space

Communicating
Creating

Use common digital technologies and

applications to organise and
communicate information for a
specific task, eg: word processing and
digital presentation software

Knowledge/Understa
nding Made
Environment
Information

Communicating
Creating

Demonstrate how a variety of media

can be combined to address the needs
of a specific audience, eg: combining
visual images, sound and text in a
digital presentation

Knowledge/Understa
nding Made
Environment
Information

Communicating
Creating

Explore how people use current and

emerging technologies to
communicate, access and record
information, eg: email, mobile phones,
blogs and wikis

Knowledge/Understa
nding Made
Environment
Information

Investigating
Communicating
Creating

Knowledge/Understa
nding Made

Ethics/Cybersafet
y

Demonstrate appropriate safety and

etiquette in relation to computer

usage, eg: general computer care, file
security, maintaining confidentiality of
passwords, printing and sharing
resources

Acknowledge ownership of
information when selecting and using
information, eg: citing sources

Environment
Information

Knowledge/Understa
nding Made
Environment
Information

Ethics/Cybersafet
y