Teacher to encourage students to create opportunities throughout learning experiences to share and challenge ideas with others. Teacher should focus formative interactions on encouraging students to be self reflective and critical to ensure they move 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 require students to explain their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity for meeting task requirements, and provide input as necessary.

Technological Modelling

Technological Products

Technological Systems

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how different forms of functional modelling are used to explore possibilities and to justify decision making and how prototyping can be used to justify refinement of technological outcomes.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that materials can be formed, manipulated, and/or transformed to enhance the fitness for purpose of a technological product.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how technological systems employ control to allow for the transformation of inputs to outputs.

Indicators

• Understand the role of functional modelling in making informed predictions.
• Understand that it is necessary to consider both what ‘can’ be done and what ‘should ‘ be done when undertaking functional modelling to justify decision making.
• Understand how prototyping can be used to justify the refinement of technological outcomes.

Indicators

• Understand that materials can be formed, manipulated and transformed in varying ways as dependent on their properties.
• Understand how a product’s fitness for purpose can be enhanced by material selection, refinement and/or development.

Indicators

• Understand control mechanisms and explain how these increase in sophistication as systems become more self-regulatory.
• Understand the role of feedback in allowing the successful transformation of input to output in complex systems.