Junior: Years 1–6
This section provides an for teachers to share ideas they have successfully used in their classroom . It includes for delivering a particular aspect of the technology curriculum, activities which have engaged student interest, resources used in the classroom, interaction with the wider community, and promotion of technology education/subject areas.
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Introducing technological systems
Year 6 students explore multiple systems to grow their understandings of technological systems.
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Exploring food packaging
A year 6 class explores food packaging and understandings about materials.
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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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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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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.
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Discovering what functional modelling is – and why it's so important
In a series of newly developed technology units, the students are not only learning what functional modelling is – they are discovering why it is so important and useful.
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Technological modelling in tie-dyeing
Dorothy Hutton of Columba College used tie-dyeing to teach the functional modelling aspect of technological modelling to her year 6 students.
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Is food a technological outcome?
In response to a misunderstanding about whether food can be a technological outcome, students were given an exploratory lesson in food technology.
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