MAKING SENSE OF THE NATURE OF SCIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO TECHNOLOGY: LEVEL 1

ACHIEVEMENT OBJECTIVES

POSSIBLE LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Students could be learning by:

• listening to others describe how they think plants grow (L 1.3);
• talking about the activities people do in different seasons (E 1.1);
• exploring how a telephone can be used (P 1.4);
• working in small groups to devise a set of questions to ask a dental therapist about the materials she uses (M 1.2);
• sharing ideas when sitting under a tree with their eyes closed and attempting to distinguish individual sounds (P 1.1/2);
• making a big book of the class's ideas about seeds (L 1.3);
• discussing their ideas on when to use scissors (P 1.4);
• giving a talk on how a toy works (P 1.4);
• helping a partner dismantle a toy and sharing ideas about how the different parts work (P 1.4);
• making a toy that floats upright (P 1.4);
• investigating materials to wrap an ice block in to prevent it from melting too quickly (P 1.1);
• discussing the sort of knife that is best for cutting bread (P 1.4).

ASSESSMENT EXAMPLES

Teachers and students could assess the students':

• ability to suggest ideas, when the students explain their understanding about why some people go faster down a slide than other people;
• ability to observe and share ideas, when the students watch the changes in an egg as it poaches or a pikelet as it cooks;
• awareness of requirements for vehicle movement, when the students make a toy car using cardboard boxes, wheels, and axles;
• awareness of the appropriate simple technology used for cutting different materials, when the students choose from a range of pictures of simple cutting instruments.