Senior - Years 12–13
This section provides an opportunity for teachers to share ideas they have successfully used in their classroom practice. It includes strategies for delivering a particular aspect of the technology curriculum, activities that 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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Strategies for engaging girls in computer science
Teacher Julie MacMahon uses strategies to interest girls in computer science.
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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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Technology teaching in a 3-day episode
During a “3-Day Episode” (suspended timetable), students made and sold bouquets as a fundraiser for Totara Hospice. This episode was used this as an opportunity to grow the students’ understanding of the Technology curriculum.
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Learning pathways
Amuri Area School has successfully developed pathways for students that include dual enrolment at the Canterbury Tertiary College (CTC). Major timetable restructuring for the senior school has been a key to their success.
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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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