Teaching snapshots
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This section provides an for teachers to share ideas they have successfully used in their classroom . It includes: strategies for delivering a particular aspect of the Technology curriculum, activities which have engaged student interest, used in the classroom, interaction with the wider community, and promotion of technology education/subject areas.
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Exploring modelling in practice and materials: Creating a shade house
At Te Kura o Otangarei, junior students planned and built a shade house to complement the glass house built by the seniors.
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Introducing technology to juniors
Year 1–2 students at Coastal Taranaki School explore characteristics of technology and technological practice in the context of developing collision biscuits.
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Making the most of classroom walls
Jeff Thomas of Birkenhead College creates a physical environment that supports technology concepts and vocabulary in both English and te reo Māori.
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Nests for the school production
Making major props for the school production provided a year 6 class with an authentic context for learning about attributes, functional modelling, and outcome development.
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Sustainability: Domestic energy efficiency
Senior technology students grow their interest in sustainable energy design and supply through the context of developing energy efficient solar water heating systems.
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Recording evidence in designing materials outcomes using iCoach
James Woodford actively teaches a design approach to his hard materials students. To help his students with the literacy demands, he has found an innovative way of reducing the burden of evidence gathering.
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Technological products and outcomes in food technology
Gill Mandley at Riccarton High School rewrote her year 10 food technology programme to put greater emphasis on experimentation as a means of growing understanding of technological products and the characteristics of technological outcomes.
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Deepening understanding in the nature of technology
Year 9 speeches provide an opportunity for students to explore a technological outcome and deepen their understanding of characteristics of technology (COT) and characteristics of technological outcomes (CoTO).
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Technological practice and characteristics of technology: Producing a newspaper
Year 6 students created their own newspaper in a local curriculum programme of learning covering technology, literacy, health, social sciences, and numeracy.
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Colour on metal: Design and functional modelling in year 6
Inspired by a workshop run by an American jewellery designer, Sally Laing returns with ideas that she wants to try out with her year 6 technology students.