Room 2 and 2a have just begun a week long technology unit. We are following our theme of ANZACs and Keeping those we Love Safe.
Here is some of our planning:
Learning Area: Food Technology
Strand: Technological Practice, Nature of Technology
Context: Exploring Food Packaging/ Processing technologies
Duration: 1 Week Term 2
Vision: Actively Involved – participants in a range of life contexts, contributors to the wellbeing of NZ – social, cultural, economic and environmental.
Principle: Coherence – the curriculum offers all students a broad education that makes links within and across learning areas, provides for coherent transitions, and opens up pathways to further learning.
Value: Honesty / Integrity and Responsibility.
Key Competencies: Relating to Others – interacting effectively with a diverse range of people, in a variety of contexts – listening actively, recognising different points of view and negotiating and sharing ideas.
Key Competencies: Relating to Others – interacting effectively with a diverse range of people, in a variety of contexts – listening actively, recognising different points of view and negotiating and sharing ideas.
Achievement Objectives:
- The students will understand that Technology is purposeful intervention through design
- Understand that Technological Outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical nature
Specific Objectives for Lessons: WALT (We are Learning To)
- identify materials that technological products can be made from (bag for biscuit)
- suggest performance properties of common materials (fit for purpose)
- choose 1 additional ingredient to design a new Anzac Biscuit
- mix and bake new biscuit
We brainstormed all the ideas we had about the ingredients that might be in a yummy biscuit. Mrs O’Grady wrote our ideas on the Active Board. We had lots of ideas. Some of us had helped Mum or Dad or Grandma to cook biscuits. All of us had enjoyed eating biscuits before!
After we had inspected our Anzac Biscuit we decided which ingredients we thought really were used to make it. Mrs O’Grady circled those things on our Brainstorm. Next we got a copy of the Anzac Biscuit recipe and read it. We found out which things we had not realised were in it…….. Only two – golden syrup and oats! We coloured in the recipe and then glued it into our scrapbooks to take home for Reading.
