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Years 11-13 Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
On 27 March 2010, Wellington's refocused and revitalised Carter Observatory opened its doors to the public after a four-year shutdown for a major makeover. The new Carter relinquished its title of National Observatory - a function that had long been fulfilled by other much more modern facilities - ...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Carter-Observatory/
Kitchen unit with removable butcher's block
Year 12 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Samantha's family are big meat-eaters, with everyone sharing in its preparation and cooking at meal times. However there was no appropriate area in the kitchen for the preparation of meat, so Samantha decided to design and construct a combination kitchen unit and butcher's block. Her father was hap...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/Samantha-Kennerson-Block.htm
Years 9-14 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Fairhaven School in Napier caters for special needs students aged 5 to 21 at its base school and six satellite units. As the range of student needs and abilities is varied and many can't record their thinking in written form, teachers focus primarily on building oral communication skills and use pi...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Fairhaven-Pathway.htm
Museum of Transport and Technology
Teaching Practice - Resource Review
MOTAT is an interactive museum built on a site that once pumped water drawn from Western Springs Lake to early Auckland homes and businesses. The museum offers a wide range of innovative and fun learning experiences across all curriculum areas.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/motat.htm
Year 8 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
While his friends dash through the rain to keep their electronic games dry, Carlos Kershaw doesn't have to worry because his Nintendo DS (dual-screen handheld game console) has a specially designed holder to keep it dry.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/Carlos-DS-cover.htm
Principal-led change in Technology
Years 1-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Full implementation of the Technology curriculum (2007) has been variable between schools. This snapshot looks at one principal's recognition of the need for change in programme delivery from Manual to Technology and the strategies he used to achieve this, based on his awareness that the head of a ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Principal-led-change-in-Technology.htm
CP1007: Fabric Storage Containers
Year 6 Soft Materials - Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 6 students at Dilworth School designed a fabric storage container for a client during the Soft Materials focus in their Technology programme. The students learnt to make patterns and how to use a sewing machine during the development of their containers.
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1007.htm
Temperature controlled window mechanism
Year 13 Electronics - Student Showcase
Hussam designed and built a device that automatically opened and closed windows to maintain a desired room temperature, for which he gained a 2009 Transpower Neighbourhood Engineers Award.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/electronics/Hussam-Auto-window.htm
Estelle Peacock - A performance costume
Year 13 Soft Materials - Scholarship Exemplar
This Technology unit focused on the development of a performance costume for a ballet dancer. The student worked with the dancer as her client. She researched the technological practice undertaken by professional technologists to inform the practice used to develop a tutu that was 'fit for purpose...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Scholarship/Estelle-Peacock.htm
Years 9-11 Teaching Practice - Resource Review
The Applications series of booklets is intended for use with students in Years 9 - 11. It presents scientific and technological information within the context of narratives that reflect real-life problems and experiences. This approach supports the development of language across the curriculum.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/applications-series.htm
Year 8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Robert was asked to develop a gift, something meaningful that his stakeholder would cherish, and decided to make a toy for his one-year-old niece. He first thought about creating a mini drum set on a platform but realised that this would be too difficult to construct in 12 two-hour lessons, he then...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials/Robert-Dolls-rocking-chair.htm
Video adaptations of Māori myths and legends
Year 8 Digital Technology - Teaching Snapshot
In this school-wide Technology unit, students illustrate the concept of 'transformation' by creating their own short video adaptations of Māori myths and legends. Involving over 180 students, this unit illustrates ideas within the Nature and Knowledge strands while enhancing skills in soft mat...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Northcross-Myths-videos.htm
Technological Modelling for Perfect Pasta
Year 8 Food and Bio-related - Teaching Snapshot
When the Technology team at Remuera Intermediate created a programme of learning in 2009 they established Technological Modelling as the focus component in Year 8 Food Technology. This presented a challenge for their new Food Technology teacher Sonja Potter, who returned to teaching Technology in 2...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Remuera-Perfect-Pasta.htm
Years 11-13 Hard Materials - Classroom Practice Case Study
Year 13 students at Takapuna Grammar School created replica furniture and fittings to be installed in Fort Takapuna for their clients - the Department of Conservation and the Tamaki Reserve Protection Trust. The unit evolved from a two-student project in 2007 into something most of the class worked...
www.techlink.org.nz/CP1006.htm
Years 3-8 Digital Technology - Resource Review
What do making toys, diarrhea, a space mission to Jupiter and designing a tapa cloth have in common? Well, they are all Connected - that is, they are all topics in the Ministry of Education free educational resource booklet series of that name. And if you are planning a Technology, or cross-curricu...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Connected.htm
Years 7-13 Digital Technology - Resource Review
Promotional CD produced by Techlink in conjunction with Futureintech that illustrates the practice and achievements of Technology students and their potential career paths in a 56 image power point slideshow. The CD was created to promote Technology as a learning area and to inform parents of inter...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Techlink-slideshow.htm
Accessing additional expertise
Year 12 Soft Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Fabrics Technology teacher Maya Foster planned a wearable arts unit around a two-day workshop in which her Year 12 students would work with wearable artist Anita Peters. This skills and knowledge-development initiative became part of a wider collaboration with Year 9, 10 and 13 students and culmina...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Rangitoto-Working-with-technologist.htm
Years 7-8 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
When Takapuna Normal Intermediate joined the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme in 2008, Technology teachers had the challenge of developing their own course within the IB framework. The school chose to follow the IB primary years programme (PYP, ages 3 to 12) rather than middle years progr...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Takapuna-IB-Programme.htm
Year 13 Digital Technology - Student Showcase
Jessica's client for her Year 13 Digital Technology project was Tania Roxborogh, a beloved New Zealand author of young adult fiction, nonfiction and educational books. Tania wanted a website that would give her a web presence that did justice to her well-established reputation, serving as a place t...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/ict/Jessica-Website.htm
Year 13 Soft Materials - Student Showcase
Tayla and Alana worked together on a wearable arts project, with an emphasis on recycling, for which they each created five garments. Their organisation of a charity fashion show Recyclable Wonders, which expanded to include Year 9, 10 and 12 students, also involved them being stakeholders for the ...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/materials-soft/Alana-Tayla-Wearable-arts.htm
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