Technology education in New Zealand explores how, beginning with a need or opportunity, new products and systems are developed and how technological developments impact on our world. It also aims for students (to develop “a broad technological literacy”) to gain skills, knowledge, and understanding that will enable them to thoughtfully live with, critique, and contribute to the technological developments that shape our lives.
The school year has been divided into two cycles. Terms one and two- cycle one and terms three and four will be cycle two.
CYCLE ONE
1. Through various learning experiences offered in class, students will explore the performance properties of ingredients/materials, acquire knowledge, language and skills needed to develop their own products or systems in cycle two.
2. Students will also explore the characteristics of technological outcomes:
Year
7 students will identify and describe the links between the physical and
functional attributes of a given technological outcome.
Year
8 students will describe how two technological outcomes with similar physical
attributes can have different functional attributes and vice versa. In addition
to this, extension students will identify and describe what is “proper function
and other function” of various technological outcomes.
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