Supporting Learning Environment Level 2

To support students to undertake planning for practice at level two teachers could:

• ensure that there is a brief against which planning to develop an outcome can occur
• provide students with an overview of the stages they will be working through during their technological practice. This could be presented and explained as a design process the teacher has developed, and it could be used to support students to identify what the key stages are
• provide a range of appropriate resources and guide students to decide which of these they wish to use in their outcome.

Identify and record the key stages and resources required to produce their outcome

Game Play – “What comes next?”

Give students a set of photographs of a sequence of steps undertaken to develop a technological outcome, with steps missing at the end. Students to suggest either next possible step and/or what the finished outcome would/could be. Repeat activity but with a key step (s) missing in the middle of the sequence and have student determine what the missing key step is.

Students in pairs use a dice with questions that require students to identify what needs to be considered.

Use a teacher created dice with questions that are specific to the teaching programme or get students to create their own questions for each other.
Example questions…

• What key stages have I done so far?
• What key stages do I still need to do?
• What resources have I used so far?
• What resources will I need next?

etc

Record answers on a template and peer critique using a bank of guided questions.

Use a range of known and unknown technological products so that students can explain them:

• from their experience in interacting with them
• through ‘predicting’ what they are used for and where, who uses them, how they were made, etc.

Use a template with stems for students to complete e.g. Outcomes will:
be used to … This will …
be used by … to …
will enable/allow … by …
was made by … using … resources/equipment.

Describe what they have done already and what resources have been used.

Buddy chat - in pairs describe what they have done already and what resources have been used

Encourage students to listen and ask questions such as:

• why did you do this?
• how did it help you?
• what will you do next?
• what resources will you need?

Explain what they are going to do next.

Students complete a template to record from a bank of resources (pictures and/or actual resources) those that they think they will need to produce their technological outcome to meet required attributes.

Provide a range of pictures of and/or actual resources for students to see and interact with. Have them determine the resources they will need to use and the order in which they will use them.