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Auckland Normal Intermediate – Integration a revelation
Years 7-8 Facilities - Facilities
Auckland Normal Intermediate has made several significant changes heading toward International Baccalaureate certification and the subsequent curriculum revamp and remodelling of the Technology areas has had a dramatic effect on the Technology department. This has enabled an entirely new approach t...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Auckland-Normal-Integrating-revelation.htm
Green Bay Primary and Intermediate: Creating a Year 1-8 Technology workroom
Years 1-8 Facilities - Facilities
Green Bay Primary and Intermediate School in West Auckland didn't stop at half-measures in making the commitment to deliver the Technology curriculum through Years 1-8, and students now work in a purpose-built Technology room. Although Year 7-8 students take Technology at neighbouring Green Bay Hig...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Facilities/Green-Bay-Y1-8-technology-facilities.htm
Years 11-13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Oceanic Fusion is an organic cosmetics company formed by St Thomas of Canterbury College students Charlie Latilupe, Kasiano Petelo, Mathew Eliand, Caleb Reweti, Jordan Koloamatangi and Tom Scott. With a comprehensive and original business plan that provided aid to Pacific Island communities and mai...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Oceanic-Fusion.htm
Years 0-6 Hard Materials - Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 1-6 students at Green Bay Primary & Intermediate School worked on a two-term integrated unit How West Auckland has Changed in Technology, Social Studies and English. In Technology they considered toys from the past, made yo-yos and then developed moving toys. This case study looks at this ...
www.techlink.org.nz/cp1101.htm
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Carmel College student Kate Marsh achieved a truly professional outcome with her Year 13 Food Technology project, creating a cookbook as a fundraiser for her school. Kate's project integrated Food Technology, Photography and Design, truly testing the skills and resolve of the 18-year-old.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Carmelised-Kate-Marsh.htm
Technology and financial literacy
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Students working in a Young Entrepreneurs Academy develop a range of outcomes and increase their technological and financial knowledge in the process.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Kelston-Financial-Literacy.htm
Year 9 Food and Bio-related - Teaching Snapshot
Food Technology Teacher Belinda Devlin was planning a Year 9 unit in which her students would visit a food production facility to observe the process of developing a food product from beginning to end, but it was difficult to find anyone willing to host a school trip due to issues of health and saf...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Longbay-Chestnuts-Unit.htm
Years 9-13 Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
After a road crash left Mr Allen paralysed from the chest down, doctors said it was all over: he'd never race again. But that was before he met Rex, his robotic exoskeleton.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Rex-the-robotic-exoskeleton/
Years 11-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Founding a new school provides opportunity to look at different ways of delivering effective learning and the flexibility to build new ideas into a timetable. Albany Senior High School, the first state senior school in the country, opened in 2009 with a unique structure in which the whole school go...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Albany-Impact-Projects.htm
Albany Senior High School: Designing new Technology facilities
Years 11-13 Facilities - Facilities
Staff at the recently formed Albany Senior High School were the envy of colleagues around the country, when they moved into their new school building with all-new equipment at the beginning of 2010. The 18 foundation teachers, appointed in 2008 to a school which hadn't then received resource consen...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Facilities/Albany-new-technology-facilities.htm
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Teaching Snapshot
In 2009 Karen Cowley ran a successful project with her Year 13 Food Technology class working within the Young Enterprise Scheme in which a group of students created a company to develop a product using berry products given to them by the Heinz/Wattie's factory.<br /> In this Teaching Snapsho...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Hastings-Young-Enterprise-Scheme-Links.htm
Tasty therapuetic recipes for young cancer patients
Year 13 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
When Saint Kentigern College student Kate Findlay decided to develop a range of recipes for the care of paediatric patients as her Year 13 Technology project, she created an outcome that addressed a serious social need. Kate worked with dietary supplement company Nutricia to create simple, tasty an...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/kate-therapeutic-recipes.htm
Years 9-13 Electronics - Technologists Practice Case Study
Based in Lower Hutt, New Zealand company Pertronic Industries designs and manufactures highly specialised fire detection systems for the New Zealand and intensely competitive international market. Key to Pertronic's success is their innovative monitoring/response software. The company uses its smal...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Electronics/Pertronic/
Reviewing a Programme of Learning
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Technology teachers at Tauranga Intermediate developed a Programme of Learning (POL) in late 2009 to trial in 2010 - see Techlink Teaching Snapshot Creating a Programme of Learning. The team - HOD Raina Urwin, Phil Appelman, Warren MacDonald and Jo Young - modified their POL in March 2010 and forma...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Tauranga-int-Reviewing-A-POL.htm
Scoodies, tog bags and Technological Products
Year 7 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Multi-materials Technology Teacher Jo Young teaches the Technological Products component of the Technological Knowledge strand as her Year 7 focus area within a team-wide Technology programme - see Techlink Teaching Snapshot Creating a Programme of Learning. This focus is on teaching the concepts a...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Tauranga-int-Scoodies.htm
Tech decks and Technological Modelling
Year 8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Skateboarding provided a high-interest context for the ten-session (80 minutes each) unit. Jo gave her students a scenario for their work - 'The local council is considering providing another skate park at an existing recreation area; this is an opportunity to build a Tech Deck fingerboards skate p...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Tauranga-int-Tech-decks.htm
CP1009: Technology for my Community
Year 8 Teaching Practice - Classroom Practice Case Study
This unit, in which Year 8 students developed gifts to donate to a kindergarten, had been delivered in previous years but was extended to include all Technology teachers.
www.techlink.org.nz/cp1009.htm
Year 8 Digital Technology - Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 8 students were involved in an exciting unit developing zoo related promotional products that could, in theory at least, be sold at the Wellington Zoo shop. This link was set up by Barbara Knight at Queen Margaret College after a number of highly successful similar projects with Te Papa and he...
www.techlink.org.nz/cp1008.htm
Year 8 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
When Alex was asked to design a sportswear bag, he saw an opportunity to extend the given brief to reflect his musical interests. Alex is enthusiastic about music – he plays guitar and drums, and is in a band – and suggested to two musician friends that they make covers for thei...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/Alex-Guitar-Case.htm
Years 7+ Teaching Practice - Resource Review
In <em>Gadget Nation: A Journey through the Eccentric world of Invention</em>, author Steve Greenberg looks at a range of US inventions. Some, he says, "are examples of innovation gone terribly wrong", some a financial success and others "clever ideas which tanked".
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Gadget-Nation.htm
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