Teacher Guidance
To support students to develop understanding of characteristics of technology at level 2, teachers could:
- provide opportunities for students to discuss the made, natural, and social world and guide them to explore how technology relates to each of these;
- provide students with examples of different technologist's practice and guide them to identify any social and/or environmental issues that might have influenced their practice and the nature of the outcomes they produce. For example; social attitudes to the environment has resulted in some technologists choosing to only use renewable materials, cold and windy environmental considerations requiring clothing outcomes that have insulating and close-fitting attributes;
- provide students with examples of technological outcomes and guide them to explore how these have changed over time and identify any changes that have resulted in terms of people's capability to do things. Examples should allow students to recognize that increasing capability to do things may result in both positive and negative impacts on the person, society and/or the environment;
- provide students with the opportunity to explore a range of technologies and guide them to identify examples of positive and negative impacts on people, society and/or the environment.
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Teacher Guidance
To support students to develop understanding of characteristics of technological outcomes at level 2, teachers could:
- provide students with a range of technological outcomes and non-technological objects and guide them to identify which of these could be described as technological outcomes and explain why. Technological outcomes are defined as fully realised products and systems, created by people for an identified purpose through technological practice. Once the technological outcome is placed in situ, no further design input is required for the outcome to function. Taking this definition into account, technological outcomes can be distinguished from natural objects (such as trees and rocks etc), and works of art, and other outcomes of human activity (such as language, knowledge, social structures, organisational systems etc);
- provide students with a range of contemporary and historical technological outcomes and encourage them to explore these through such things as: using, 'playing', dismantling and rebuilding as appropriate;
- guide students to identify the technological outcomes explored as products and/or systems. Identifying an outcome as a product or system will influence the description of its physical nature. For example, if a technological outcome is identified as a product, the focus for describing its physical nature will be on the physical attributes afforded by the shaping, cutting, finishing etc of the materials it is made from. If a technological outcome is identified as a system, the focus for describing its physical nature will be on the physical attributes afforded by the components within it and how they are connected;
- guide students to identify the relationship between physical and functional attributes in technological outcomes. For example the flat bottom of a cup (physical attribute) allows it to be stable on a flat surface (functional attribute);
- guide students to recognise that physical and functional attributes can give clues as to who might use the technological outcome for its intended purpose.
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Indicators
Students can:
- describe the relationship between technology and the made, natural and social world;
- identify social and/or environmental issues that may have influenced particular technological practices and/or the attributes of outcomes produced;
- describe how particular technological outcomes have changed over time and identify if this resulted in changing how people do things;
- describe examples to illustrate when technology has had a positive impact on society and/or the environment;
- describe examples to illustrate when technology has had a negative impact on society and/or the environment.
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Indicators
Students can:
- describe what technological outcomes are and explain how they are different to natural objects and other things created by people;
- identify a technological product and describe relationships between the physical and functional attributes;
- identify a technological system and describe relationships between the physical and functional attributes;
- describe the physical and/or functional attributes of a technological outcome that provide clues as to who might use it .
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