Middle - Years 7–10
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 t curriculum, activities which have engaged student interest, used in the classroom, interaction with the wider community, and promotion of t education/subject areas.
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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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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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Local curriculum design in technology: Tēnei au
Validating student identity is a key to successful teaching. Tai Wānanga Ruakura devised a project linking English and technology to get to know their year 9 students.
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Documenting progression from primary to secondary school
An innovative solution to documenting progression is students creating and maintaining an e-portfolio of their understandings and achievements.
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Reverse brief development - Bacon sundae
This unit reinforces year 10 students' understanding of brief development – through recreating, testing and Burger King’s product, the bacon sundae.
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Technological knowledge and global food contexts
A successful year 9 food technology programme of learning with a global context was adapted to incorporate the technological products component.
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Māori technology glossary
Trident High School is working with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori – The Māori Language Commission to translate common Technology terms into te reo Māori.
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Curriculum focused activities
Two technology facilitators collaborated on a number of projects to help teachers understand aspects of Technology in The New Zealand Curriculum (2007).
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Using Māori traditional stories in technology
In this school-wide technology unit, students illustrated the concept of transformation by creating their own short video adaptations of Māori traditional stories. This unit illustrates ideas within the nature of technology and technological knowledge strands while enhancing skills in designing and developing materials and digital outcomes.
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