Environmental Education and Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum

Technological Knowledge and Understanding | Technological Capability | Technology and Society

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Technological Knowledge and Understanding

Level 6

• Investigate and review strategies for the communication, promotion, and evaluation of technological outcomes, with reference to users
  e.g., environmental protection of sand dunes.

Level 7

• Experience and report on a particular community of technological practice
  e.g., a case study of a biotechnology development, town planning revision.

Level 8

• Critically analyse and evaluate the strategies used and constraints that apply in the communication, promotion, and evaluation of a specific technological innovation in relation to particular groups of users
  e.g., environmental impact of wind farms.

Technological Capability

The aim of this strand is for students to produce technological solutions in a range of technological areas and contexts.

All achievement objectives in this strand could be met through students considering the environmental impacts of the technological solutions that they propose.

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Technology and Society

Level 1

• Share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives
  e.g., the use and disposal of plastics.

Level 2

• Identify different views about a specific technological development within the local community
  e.g., roading, waste disposal.

Level 3

• Identify and consider different views and feelings of people in relation to some specific technological developments or effects
  e.g., noise pollution.
• Describe and identify the positive and negative effects of some instances of technologies on people's lives and the environment
  e.g., the effects of fast ferries on shorelines.

Level 4

• Identify and compare the range of factors and attitudes that promote or constrain a current technological development in the wider community
  e.g., speed cameras.
• Explore and discuss the impacts over time on the local and wider environments and society of some specific technology
  e.g., effluent disposal on farms.

Level 5

• Investigate and describe the present impact, and the possible future effects, of some instances of rapidly changing technologies
  e.g., plant propagation, genetically modified foods.

Level 6

• Identify and assess the factors that affect the ways different groups have responded to, promoted, or inhibited some technological innovation
  e.g., genetically modified foods.

Level 7

• Investigate and debate the perceived social and economic impacts of some specific examples of technological development
  e.g., the development of new drugs.

Level 8

• Investigate and analyse how the beliefs, values, and ethics of individuals and groups promote and constrain technological developments in specific communities
  e.g., reproductive technologies.

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