Year 1 Technologies – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Digital Citizens and Problem Solvers

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 1 Technologies in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Digital Citizens and Problem Solvers”.

Students develop digital literacy skills while learning to design solutions, manage simple projects, and understand personal data safety in digital environments.

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. What Makes Me Special Online - Exploring Personal Information
2. My Digital Helpers - Finding Technologies Around Us
3. Safe Sharing - Who Can I Trust With My Information?
4. Problem Detectives - Finding Things That Need Fixing
5. Drawing Our Solutions - Making Ideas Visual
6. Building Together - Sharing Ideas With Friends
7. Making It Real - Creating Our Digital Solution
8. Show and Tell - Presenting Our Digital Creation

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.