Abstract
Reference: CP811
Classroom Practice: Year 9
Title: Cool Food
Duration: 18 weeks
Overview: All Year 9 students did a Technology course which incorporated Food, Materials, ICT and Graphics, and involved them working on two units. Each unit was taught by two teachers to two classes, and repeated to the other two classes in the second half of the year. In the Cool Food unit students developed an ice-cream product and packaging, recording group progress through blogging.
Focus Points:
- Incorporating Food, Materials, ICT and Graphics into a Technology course.
- Team Teaching
- Differentiated classes
- Developing technological literacy
- Using a Food Technology Toolbox
- Blogging as a planning tool
