Art/Tech - Drones & App Design

Subject Name: Digital Technology

Unit of Study: Drones & App Design

Brief Description: Students learn how to code drones to map and collect data in our community. Students will also learn how apps enhance our lives and how to create an app to support students in the 21st century.

Scaffolding Learning

At the conclusion of this unit of study students will have: 

An understanding of key knowledge

• To create programs for drones to collect data
• To create apps using industry level software

Attained these key skills 

• Coding in HTML, block and JavaScript
• Using Industry standard Innovation process in creating prototypes
• App design using industry level software

Demonstrated the Victorian curriculum standards and capabilities

• Define and decompose real-world problems precisely, taking into account functional and non-functional requirements and including interviewing stakeholders to identify needs (VCDTCD050)
• Design the user experience of a digital system, evaluating alternative designs against criteria including functionality, accessibility, usability and aesthetics (VCDTCD051)
• Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in structured English and validate algorithms and programs through tracing and test cases (VCDTCD052)
• Develop modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures including using an object-oriented programming language (VCDTCD053)
• Evaluate critically how well student-developed solutions and existing information systems and policies take account of future risks and sustainability and provide opportunities for innovation (VCDTCD054)

Assessment Tasks

Students will be required to complete the following assessment tasks:

• Drone flying
• Data Analysis using drones
• Recipe App Design
• App Research Task
• Semester Exam

Additional learning opportunities

• BNTS - drone excursion

Resources

• Laptop with Notepad++

Pathways

This unit of study could provide students with the following pathway.