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 negotiate the selection of examples of technologies/technological development with the students to allow for the meeting of AOs.

Technological Modelling

Technological Products

Technological Systems

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that functional models are used to explore, test, and evaluate design concepts for potential outcomes and that prototyping is used to test a technological outcome for fitness of purpose.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that there is a relationship between a material used and its performance properties in a technological product.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that there are relationships between the inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs occurring within simple technological systems.

Indicators

• Understand the limitations of using models as representations of ‘part’ or the ‘whole’ of reality.
• Understand that functional modelling is used to explore possible and probable implications of design concepts if they were to become technological outcomes.
• Understand how functional models can be used to gather evidence for and against design concepts.
• Understand that prototyping is used to gather evidence of a technological outcome’s fitness for purpose.
• Understand how prototyping can be used to enhance the fitness for purpose through further development of technological outcomes.

Indicators

• Describe the properties of the materials from which simple products are made.
• Explain that the materials in simple product are used because of specific performance properties.

Indicators

• Understand the nature of the inputs within simple technological systems.
• Understand how the inputs and the nature of the transformation process enables the creation of the desired outputs.