Year 5 Technologies – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Digital Solutions and Online Safety

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 5 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Digital Solutions and Online Safety”.

Students develop digital literacy skills while learning to create safe, ethical digital solutions through design thinking and project management processes.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Understanding Digital Footprints: What Trail Do We Leave Online?
2. Breaking Down Design Briefs: Identifying Digital Solution Requirements
3. Investigating Digital Resources: Properties and Functions for Our Projects
4. Planning Digital Projects: Protocols and Time Management Strategies
5. Protecting Personal Data: Privacy Principles in Digital Design
6. Evaluating App Safety: Trustworthiness and Data Collection Practices
7. Ethical Digital Choices: Responsible Data Use in Our Solutions
8. Implementing Our Digital Solution: Bringing It All Together Safely

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.