Teacher Guidance
To support students to undertake brief development at Level 2, teachers could:

• provide the need or opportunity and develop the conceptual statement in negotiation with the students
• guide students to discuss the implications of the need or opportunity and the conceptual statements and support them to establish a list of attributes an appropriate outcome could have
• provide students with an overview of the resources available and guide them to take this into account when identifying the attributes for the outcome.

Explain the outcome to be produced

Explain a range of technological products in terms of:

• the problem they resolve (what they do)
• their attributes
• where they are used.

Students explain a range of known and unknown technological products:

• from their experience in interacting with them
• through 'predicting' where they are used, who uses them etc.

Explain who will use their Technological Outcome, where it will be used, what it needs to do.

Students complete a template (graphic organiser) with stems . For example...
Outcomes will:

• be used to .... this will ....
• be used by .... to .....
• will enable/allow .... by ...

Describe the attributes for an outcome that take account of the need or opportunity being addressed, and the resources available

Literacy development – use technical words to describe existing products.

Students describe existing products using terminology such as:
plastic, attributes, wood, copper, stakeholders, gears, lever, screws.....

Literacy development – use describing words to explain intended outcome ie what it is they're intending to produce.

Encourage students to describe their product(s) using terminology such as:
light, heavy, shiny, red, plastic, paper etc

Describing who will use their outcome, where it will be used, what it needs to do.

Encourage students to use technical terminology to describe the attributes of their outcomes. For example...
Outcomes will:

• be used by stakeholders who will.....
• be made from 3mm diameter wire....
• be shiny to reflect ...
• be oval in shape to ....

What are resources?

Discuss what resources are; the resources that will be used to develop an outcome.
Teacher prepares a collection of physical resources (or photographs of resources) to support student responses.