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Sustainable innovative play tent - Year 13 Soft Materials
Student Showcase
For her Year 13 Soft Materials technology project, Zoe Eccles from Kaikorai Valley College created a custom outdoor play tent for her younger sister, using sustainable materials and constru...
Professional cookie development - Year 13 Food and Bio-related
Student Showcase
Sancta Maria College students Alex Rooza, Chelsea Couchman, Elliott Diver and Summer Brooke created a nutritious and convenient breakfast replacement cookie for their year 13 food Technolog...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Breakfast-cookie-Sancta-Maria.htm
Kiwi Ingenuity: A book of New Zealand ideas and inventions - Teaching Practice
Resource Review
Author Bob Riley collected 58 stories of “kiwi ingenuity” from the 1800s through to the early 1990s. Some are well known, such as Bill Hamilton’s jet boat and Richard Pearse’s convertiplane...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Book-Kiwi-Ingenuity.htm
Radio New Zealand podcasts - Digital Technology
Resource Review
Technology has changed the way we access the media, and Radio New Zealand (RNZ) listeners can now choose how and when they listen to a programme. Created in 2005, the RNZ website began prov...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/RadioNZ-podcasts.htm
The Water Dog - Year 7-10 Electronics
Student Showcase
Caitlyn’s dog, Mishka, refuses to drink out of a bowl and insists on drinking from the bath tap. This is annoying for the humans of the household – somebody has to turn the tap on and off –...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Water-Dog-Caitlyn.htm
Re-inventing the wheel - Years 11-13 Electronics
Technologists Practice Case Study
After five years' research and development, Mr Ryan launched the YikeBike at the Eurobike trade fair in 2009. Weighing just over 10 kilograms (kg), it's the world's lightest, smallest, fold...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Re-inventing-the-wheel
Bone carving - integrating socio-cultural practice - Year 7-8 Hard Materials
Teaching Snapshot
Ian Mustard developed a bone carving unit for his 2011 Technology Māori immersion classes. The unit combined elements of Planning for Practice and Modelling with strategies picked up from M...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Bone-Carving-Phillipstown.htm
Patu - Year 8 Teaching Practice
Teaching Snapshot
With Sidney Mead's 1961 book The Art of Maori Carving as a reference, Russell developed a Year 8 unit around a context of traditional Polynesian carving in which students would develop thei...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/patu-oamaru.htm
Designing magazine - Years 7-13 Digital Technology
Resource Review
Designing is a UK magazine for teachers and students of Technology and Design that features interesting and innovative Technology projects from students, schools and designers.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Magazine-Designing.htm
Cyber safety website - Year 11 Digital Technology
Teaching Snapshot
Year 11 Digital Technologies (DT) students created websites about cyber safety during an eight-week unit.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Riccarton-Cyber-safety-website.htm
Sketching Techniques in DVC - Years 9-13 Graphics
Teaching Snapshot
Design and Visual Communication (DVC) teachers at Rangitoto College have developed some new strategies to improve the dynamism and effectiveness within their students' sketching techniques.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Rangitoto-Sketching-techniques.htm
Racey Recovery sports bar - Year 12 Food and Bio-related
Student Showcase
Year 12 Food Technology students Sarah Adam and Danielle Sutherland are both athletes and know that good nutritional recovery directly after exercise is vital. They found that existing spor...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Racey-Recovery-sports-bar.htm
Soulo - Years 9-11 Hard Materials
Technologists Practice Case Study
Soulo is a convenient, single serve wine sold in unbreakable PET plastic glasses, a packaged product developed by Auckland-based entrepreneur Kerry Johnston in January 2010.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Soulo/index.cfm
Hand-made book - Year 8 Soft Materials
Student Showcase
Meghann North worked across several Technology areas when she developed a recipe book made with hand-crafted paper.
Meghann enjoys baking, which she does weekly, so chose this as her...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/hand-made-book-st-Hildas.htm
Establishing continuity in Year 9 Technology - Year 9 Teaching Practice
Teaching Snapshot
A trial Year 9 Technology course, in which each class was taught by one teacher for four modules, proved so successful that it has been established as part of the school Technology programm...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Establishing-continuity-Year-9-Heretaunga.htm
Smart telephone exchange - Year 13 Electronics
Student Showcase
Mount Roskill Grammar student William Quach successfully created an advanced telephone exchange system for a large family home for his Year 13 Technology project.
William's client wa...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Smart-Telephone-Exchange.htm
Tech Ideas NZ website - Year 10-13 Digital Technology
Resource Review
The Tech Ideas NZ website was created by Bill Collis from Mount Roskill Grammar School as a resource for students studying electronics from Year 10 and upwards and teachers interested in im...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Website-Tech-Ideas-NZ.htm
CP1201: Dressing table design - Year 11 Graphics
Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 11 students at Westlake Girls' High School designed a dressing table inspired by a chosen designer, in a successful 19-week trial unit designed to implement the newly-aligned 2011 Tech...
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1201.htm
Electronic Bookmarks - Year 7 Electronics
Teaching Snapshot
Inspiration for the new Year 7 unit came when Phil was repairing the caretaker's BMW airbag sensor which is based on a laminated circuit system. He realised that his students could work on ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Electronic-Bookmarks-Tauranga-Intermediate.htm
Pathway seating - Year 13 Hard Materials
Student Showcase
Bradley Peffer and Troy Abraham developed seating for the Hawke's Bay District Council (HBDC) Pathway Project which aims to make Hawke's Bay more pedestrian-friendly.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/Pathway-seating-Karamu-HS.htm
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