Interactive Guidelines - Technological capability

Knowledge & Understanding - Technology
Needs & how they are met

New draft Experiences and Outcomes for Technologies (April 2008)

Talk about some everyday needs and the things that are made to meet these.

TASK (Getting around the school) - How to move around school, knowing where things are.
Talk about the need to be safe around school.
Talk about how people find their way around school.
Discuss with pupils – parts of the school, keeping safe and rules.
Tour of the school.

National Museums of Scotland - MoveIt!

Knowledge & Understanding - Technology
Resources & how they are managed

Name some familiar products, say what they are for and what they are made from.

TASK (Getting around the school) - What is necessary when with other people and the need for rules.

Talk about how materials can be used or changed for specific purposes.

TASK (Getting around the school) - Talk about the different activities that take place in different parts of the school – playground, classroom, corridors, canteen/hall, office, janitor’s room.

Talk about their surroundings and suggest improvements.

Show awareness of the need to conserve the materials that they use.

TASK (Getting around the school) - Observe pupils drawing/painting, cutting and pasting.
Sample of existing plans.

Knowledge & Understanding - Technology
Processes & how they are applied 

Talk about how familiar items, including those that they make themselves, are made through a sequence of steps.

Skills in Technology
- designing & making
Preparing for tasks

Talk about what might be done to solve a practical problem.

TASK (Getting around the school) - Recognise how a plan can help people get around and use the school safely.
Observe pupils working in a group.

Talk about possible requirements (design criteria)

Suggest uses for given resources.

 Use scissors, stick glue, coloured crayons and paints.

Follow a simple plan.

TASK (Getting around the school) - Suggest ways of making a plan to
show others important things about the school – ways to get around,
where things are, how to use them well.

Skills in Technology
- designing & making
Carrying out tasks

Use ideas and suggestions to try out possible solutions to a brief practical task.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  See how different parts of the school can be represented by drawings.

Show awareness, in their work, of any specific requirements (design criteria)

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Test coloured and white card and paper to see which is best for the plan.
Question pupils about the quality of the solutions, whether they do the
job, what is good and what could be improved.

Use given resources and processes to carry out a task safely and hygienically

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Use school magazines, catalogues

Skills in Technology
- designing & making
Reviewing & reporting on tasks

Comment on the outcome of their work in relation to given requirements, and by comparing with the work of peers.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Recognise the reasons for being good and keeping safe.
Try out drawing/painting and cutting and pasting found symbols and
pictures that can be used to represent parts of the school.

Developing informed attitudes - Technology
A commitment to learning

enjoyment of their practical work and of it being worth doing well, its contributions to quality of life and the environment generally.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Appreciate what can happen when things go wrong.

working alone, together and with experts and how each can help achieve solutions to problems.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Decide what parts of the school should be represented on the plan.

Developing informed attitudes - Technology
Respect & care for self & others

the importance of people’s views, feelings and situations when developing criteria for, and whilst engaging in, designing and making.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Appreciate card and paper as materials suited to use in a plan and images to go on it.
Design symbols and pictures, in small groups, to be placed on class produced plan that helps them and others to understand the ways to
get around school safely.

the notion that ideas and solutions, which although satisfying some, might be unacceptable to others

safe, healthy and hygienic working practices and their importance

Developing informed attitudes - Technology
Social & environmental responsibility

the way products come into existence, are bought, sold, used and discarded and the effects upon social systems and environmental quality.

TASK (Getting around the school) -  Realise that drawing and cutting and pasting are ways of creating pictures.
Test and evaluate the solutions and what they have gained from the task.

the interplay between meeting people’s needs through the use of materials, money and time and conserving and improving the quality of the natural environment through minimising the harmful effects of actions.