Pre-Primary Technologies – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Exploring Digital Systems and My Digital World

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Pre-Primary Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Exploring Digital Systems and My Digital World”.

Students explore how digital systems represent data through images and objects while learning about personal and public data to develop digital literacy and ethical understanding.

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. Discovering Icons: Pictures That Tell Us What to Do
2. Sorting Our Toys: Making Groups and Categories
3. Street Signs: Reading Pictures in Our Community
4. My Special Photos: What Belongs to Me
5. Community Pictures: What Everyone Can See
6. Birthday Calendar: Organizing Our Special Days
7. Safe Sharing: When Photos Go Public
8. Digital Detectives: Finding Personal and Public Data

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 1

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 1 runs from Monday 2 February to Thursday 2 April — 9 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.