Technological products
Objective:
- Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.
SUMMARY:
Learn about how something is designed, improved, made, sustained and recycled. Look into what particular products are made of, and the deeper reasons why.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
+ Examine a technological product by looking at all the parts that it is made out of -
- Dismantle it, and write down your observations;
+ Consider the processes involved in selecting the materials that each part of the product uses -
- What is the product used for?
- Where is the product made, and does that geographic location influence the selection of materials which the product uses?
+ Understand how technological products are maintained, and their lifespan -
- How can the product be enhanced, renewed, fixed, or updated?
- When is the product expected to expire/break down?
- How does the product get disposed of/recycled?
NZ Technology Education
- Characteristics of technological outcomes
- Characteristics of technology
- Technological products
- Technological systems
- Technological modelling
- Outcome development and evaluation
- Brief development
- Planning for practice
- Nature of Tech
- Tech Knowledge
- Tech Practice
