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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Rongoā Māori in the technology learning area
As part of a revamp of the biotechnology course, this teacher learnt about Rongoā Māori and developed a new unit in which students could learn from the technological process she had followed.
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Te Papa and Beyond - Paloma Davis
Paloma's wearable art design for her client, the Te Papa Store, was displayed in the main window of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as part of a focus on the World of Wearable Arts events in Wellington.
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The Pathway Project
Fairhaven School in Napier caters for special needs students aged 5 to 21 at its base school and six satellite units. In 2009, a group of Year 9-14 students from the senior syndicate worked on a pathway project in their Technology programme.
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Local museum unit
Barbara Knight worked with the Museum of Wellington City & Sea on a project in which students created a conceptual design for a prototype souvenir for the museum's gift shop.
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Students build their own aeroplane
Nine Year 11-13 students from Mercury Bay Area School in Whitianga are constructing a kitset aeroplane.
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Sketching techniques in DVC
Design and Visual Communication (DVC) teachers at Rangitoto College have developed some new strategies to improve the dynamism and effectiveness within their students' sketching techniques.
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Emergency power generator
Hundreds of people were left without power after the Christchurch earthquake. For six Technology students at St Thomas of Canterbury College, this provided the inspiration to develop a useful method of generating electricity without mains power.
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Technological products in food technology
Having students experiment with ingredients proved a successful strategy for teaching technological products.
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Impact Projects
Founding a new school provides opportunity to look at different ways of delivering effective learning and the flexibility to build new ideas into a timetable.
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Te Papa and Beyond - Ruby Hanfling
Asked to design wearable art on the theme 'Glitz and glamour', Ruby created a costume inspired by the work of artist Gustav Klimt.