Teaching Resource
Old vs New Communication Devices - Sorting Activity
A fun sorting activity for students to identify old and new communication devices.
Use this teaching resource when learning about the history of communication methods and devices, and how these have changed over time.
Students use this activity to sort old and new communication devices into old and new post boxes.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- HT1-3
Describes the effects of changing technology on people’s lives over time
- STe-1WS-S
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
- STe-7DI-T
Identifies digital systems and explores how instructions are used to control digital devices
- ST1-3DP-T
Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems
- STe-1WS-S
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
- STe-7DI-T
Identifies digital systems and explores how instructions are used to control digital devices
- ST1-3DP-T
Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCDTDS013
Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose
- VCDTDI014
Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams
- VCDTDS013
Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose
- VCDTDI014
Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams
- VCDTDS013
Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose
- VCDTDI014
Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams
- VCHHK065
The effect of changing technology on people’s lives and their perspectives on the significance of that change
- VCHHK065
The effect of changing technology on people’s lives and their perspectives on the significance of that change
- VCHHK065
The effect of changing technology on people’s lives and their perspectives on the significance of that change
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACTDIK001
Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose
- ACHASSK030
Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents?? and grandparents?? childhoods
- ACHASSK046
How changing technology affected people??s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated and played in the past)
- ACTDIK002
Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams

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