Supporting Learning Environment Level 1

To support students to develop understanding of technological systems at level 1, teachers could:

• provide students with a range of technological systems and encourage them to explore these through such things as: using, ‘playing’, dismantling and rebuilding as appropriate
• guide students to identify the components and how they are connected in the systems explored
• guide students to identify the inputs and outputs of technological systems and provide opportunity for them to recognise that a controlled transformation has occurred.

Identify the components of a technological system and how they are connected

Provide simple systems that students are familiar with (e.g. a simple mechanical toy, torch) and explore how the components are are connected together

Have students

• describe what they see when the system is complete in terms of how they think the components are connected
• disassemble the systems to see how the different parts are connected together

The teacher needs to use and encourage students to use technological language to describe components, and transformations e.g. inputs, outputs, power, sound, receiver

Identify the input/s and output/s of particular technological systems

Provide simple systems that students are familiar with and talk about how the components work together from the input to the output

Have students

• describe what they see when the system is complete in terms of the inputs and outputs
• disassemble the systems to identify those components which are inputs and those outputs

Identify that a system transforms an input to an output

Provide simple systems that students are familiar with and talk about how the components work and the transformations that occur between inputs and output

Have students

• describe the transformations that occur between the systems input and output