Linking to the Curriculum:
terminology and achievement objectives
This case study can be used to facilitate discussion designed to familiarise teachers and groups of students with curriculum terminology. Specific terminology illustrated includes
|
Strand
|
Component
|
Terminology
|
|
Nature of Technology
|
Characteristics of Technology
|
- Purposeful intervention by design
- Transform materials energy and information
- Collaborative and interdisciplinary
|
|
|
Characteristics of Technological outcomes
|
- Material products developed through technological practice
- Fitness for purpose
- Physical and functional properties
|
|
Technological Knowledge
|
Technological modelling
|
- Functional modelling
Prototyping
- Functional and practical reasoning
|
|
|
Technological Products
|
- Relationship between the properties of materials and their performance capability
- New materials formulation and their potential impact on future product function
|
|
Technological Practice
|
Brief Development
|
- ..taking into account the social and physical environment
- Specifications
- Ongoing evaluation
|
|
|
Planning for Practice
|
- Fitness for purpose of planning tools
- Understandings from past and current experiences
- Efficient resource management
- Ongoing critical evaluation
|
|
|
Outcome Development and Evaluation
|
- Creative generation of design ideas
- Ongoing analysis testing and evaluation
|
The case study material and the additional resource material below can be used to address the requirements of achievement objectives across the three strands and a range of levels. As an example the following achievement objectives have been selected:
|
Strand
|
Component
|
Level
|
Achievement Objective
|
|
Nature of Technology
|
Characteristics of Technology
|
4
6
7
|
Students will:
- Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines
- Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximizing possibilities through collaborative practice
- Understand the implications of ongoing contestation and competing priorities for complex and innovative decision making in technological development
|
|
Nature of Technology
|
Characteristics of Technological Outcomes
|
1
2
5
|
Students will:
- Understand that technological outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical nature and a functional nature
- Understand that technological outcomes are developed through technological practice and have related physical and functional nature
- Understand that technological outcomes are fit for purpose in terms of time and context. Understand the concept of malfunction and how failure can inform future outcomes
|
|
Technological Knowledge
|
Technological Products
|
4
8
|
Students will:
- understand that materials can be formed, manipulated and/or transformed to enhance the fitness of purpose of a technological product
- understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation, and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance and disposal of technological products
|
