Teacher to provide opportunities throughout learning experiences for the students’ ideas to be shared as a group and challenged to ensure they are guided towards deeper more sophisticated understandings. Links should also be made to student opportunities to undertake Technological Practice and develop understandings of the Nature of Technology – both those in the past and future opportunities. That is, the understandings being developed should be used to reflect on past experiences and consider the implications for their future learning in technology. Teacher should select examples of technologies/technological development that allow for the meeting of AOs and are reflective of student interests.

Technological Modelling

Technological Products

Technological Systems

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that functional models are used to represent reality and test design concepts and that prototypes are used to test technological outcomes.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological products are made from materials that have performance properties.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological systems have inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs. .

Indicators

• Understand the difference between ‘reality’ and representations of reality.
• Understand models as representations of reality.
  understand the purpose of functional modelling in terms of testing design concepts.
• Understand the purpose of prototyping in terms of testing technological outcomes.

Indicators

• Identify the materials from which simple products are made.
• Identify the performance requirements of materials used in simple products.

Indicators

• Understand technological systems as distinct from the steps people carry out in everyday life etc.
• Understand components of simple systems (e.g. inputs, outputs and transformation processes) and the connections between them.
• Understand the purpose of simple systems.