Term 2 2016 - Weeks 1-10

Designs Unlimited
Allenton School ACE Key
Competences
A- Aroha
S-Self Management
A- Always thinking
C- Communication
E- Effort
Perspective:

Values

Respect
Cooperation
Honesty
Excellence
Curiosity

Multicultural

Possible/Chosen Contexts:

Design Process

House/bridge/tower/
tunnel design
Design differences for different needs in different countries
Chinese village
Town planning
Housing for habitats
Irrigation
School designs
BP challenge technology
Science alive?
Minecraft, sketch-up, coding, scratch
Shelter design
Bus stop design
Playground design
Community experts
Designing costumes(for T3 Arts presentation)

Rich Concepts:

Enduring Understandings

Systems and Change

As needs and opportunities arise, we design test and evaluate

ideas using resources that suit the purpose.

Curriculum Focus
Inquiry - Technology

That technology affects everyday life and reflects changing

needs over time.

Achievement Objectives
Nature of Technology
Students will:
Level 1
Characteristics of technology
Understand that technology is purposeful intervention through design.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical nature and a functional nature.
Level 2
Characteristics of technology
Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and the environment and increases peoples capability.

Characteristics of technological outcomes

Understand that technological outcomes are developed through technological practice and have related physical and functional natures.
Level 3
Characteristics of technology
Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in historical and contemporary contexts and that
technological knowledge is validated by successful function.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are recognisable as fit for purpose by the relationship between their physical and functional natures.

Topical Understandings
Students will understand that:
There are natural, manmade and social structures.
Structures may need to be modified depending on the
environment.
Focus Questions
Thinking Tools (Highlight Chosen)
What are natural
Thinkers Keys
structures?
6 hats
What are man-made
P.M.I
structures?
Questioning
What are social structures?
Graphic Organisers
What systems need to be
Andersons Blooms Taxonomy
in place in order to survive on
another planet?

Power/Oxygen/Food/Communal
Living Area/Water - Systems

ICT Learning Tools (Highlight Chosen)

Digital
cameras
Comic Life
Websites
iPad Apps

ead

Voicethr

Cross-curricula links
Mathematics - 2D and 3D shapes
The Arts - communication
through dance (bee dance)

Blog
iMovie
Aurasm

Knowledge

Skills

Students will know:

Vocab/terminology
Definitions
Key Factual Info
Critical details
Important events and people
Sequence timeline

Students will be able to:

Use communication skills
listening, speaking, reading, writing,
presenting
Use research, inquiry,
investigation skills e.g note taking
Using language area specific
skills
Using interpersonal and group
skills

Resources

https://www.childrensmuseum.org/legacy-games/cosmicquest/living.html
School Journal search on bees
YouTube clips
How things work website
Assessment

Six Facets of Understanding

Can explain
Can interpret
Can apply
Have perspective
Can empathise
Have self-knowledge

Other Evidence
AS ACE Criteria

What authentic activities will provide evidence of desired understandings?

Practical Students can design a structure for use in space eg probe,
space station
By what criteria will students be evaluated?
Students will be able to:
1B 1P 1A
2B

2P - Draw a system/structure that would be required for human survival on Earth

2A 3B - understand that structures/systems can be natural, manmade or social

- Draw a system/structure that would be required for human survival in space
3P - give an example of a natural, a man-made and a social structure/system
- build /model/draw with labels a system/structure that would be required for human survival in space
3A- explain a natural, manmade or social structure/system in detail
- build/model/draw with labels a series of interconnected systems/structures that would be required for human
survival in space

Vocabulary to be introduced:
Systems, structures, component, fitness for purpose, process, feasible, dismantle, rebuild,
prototype, modification, specification, functional, opportunity, need, interdependence, user
friendly, durable, innovation, aesthetic, properties, mechanisms, solar panels, hydroponics,
reticulation, water cycle
Differentiation ORRS, Special Needs, G & T, ESOL.
Self directed learning for G & T through application of systems learning in space setting
Special Needs - understand there are different systems needed for human survival eg air, water
supplies, shelter
Front loading of vocabulary during ESOL sessions

Learning Sequence
Initial Brainstorm of possible ideas to select from:

Lesson
Sequen
ce

Topical
Understandings
(Students will
understand
that)
Weeks Man made,
1, 2 & natural and social
systems
3
Bees - natural
structure of
beehives, social
structure of bee
colony, how man
has taken the
honeycomb
structure and

Learning Experiences

In groups write down

what we know about bees
and what we would like to
find out
Collate these ideas
together as a class
Visit from local
beekeeper
Honeycomb in class
for close up examining
Read Buzz into Bees

Resources

Buzz
into Bees SJ
Range
of books
from
Ashburton
Public
Library
Scann
ed books
from school

used in manmade structures

Weeks In order to
4 & 5 survive in a space
Intercha
nge
across
classes

station or live on
another planet
some systems
and structures
will be essential.

Weeks Designs they

6 7 8 create for their
space station or
&9

dome for another

planet must
contain the
essential design
features that
have been
identified.

Week
10

Changes to
design is an
important part of
technology.

Watch Magic School

Bus in a Beehive
Class work in pairs to
use a range of resources to
check the facts we know and
find the answers to our
questions.
Meet back in groups to
discuss findings, then come
back together as class to
collate our findings.
Present 5 interesting
facts about Bees using
Google Draw.
Oxygen and CO2
removal
Hydroponics growing
food in space
water filtration and
recycling
solar energy systems
Watch Power Point of
Living on Mars and Living on
Mars without a spacesuit
and How to Live on Mars.
Make a class list of what will
be needed.
In pairs design a plan
on paper showing all the
essential design features
and how they are linked
together.
Create the space
station or dome on Minecraft
incorporating all the
essential design features
Share their creations
with the rest of the class
who will evaluate them
against a set of criteria
which the whole class has
established.
Respond to
evaluations by modifying
and adapting designs to
improve and extend their
functionality.

library
Websit
es including
youtube

Youtube clip
touring the space
station
Books and
websites
Worksheets

Mars Power Point

http://www.slidesh
are.net/dougvass/l
iving-on-marsppt
Living on Mars
https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?
v=OJRcBeVQOhw
http://www.space.
com/22342-howto-live-on-marscolonytechnology.html
Various space
books
Websites
Daniel and Sawyer
who are Minecraft
experts.
Student
evaluations