Technology: Designing outcomes and making prototypes

This week we have been designing our Te Reo outcomes for our stakeholders

Communicating our ideas is important

We need to say what our theme is and what our outcome will be 

Our themes were simple like colours, numbers, food, body parts, the classroom 

some groups have chosen sports too...

Our outcomes were interactive posters, games or pop up books

We only had five minutes for each design so our communication was really important- 

we drew ideas and labelled them

Then we got into teams to discuss our ideas and finalise our choices

Each team chose two ideas to develop

Then we made a prototype of one of our ideas

Our prototypes are simple

They should be good enough to test our ideas

We don't need to spend too much time on them-

we will save our efforts for the final outcome after testing our prototypes next week

 We did check our spellings and our translations

We made stencils if we had to repeat shapes

We made sure our prototypes, although simple, were well made

We will test them with our stakeholders and get some feedback

Stay tuned.......

Technology:Analysing existing outcomes

This week we have been analysing existing outcomes to help us become better designers...

We have our first live project.... to design outcomes to help all our students to learn and reinforce our Te Reo Māori.

Each Technology class is linked to another class in the school- we have to design for our stakeholders. Some classes have to design for Year 5/6's and some have to design for our Juniors Year 0/1's and we have all year groups in between- thank you to the classes that have signed up for this!

In order to design quality outcomes that meet the need of our students we have been playing games and looking at existing vocabulary outcomes....like pop up books, interactive posters and interactive power point presentations.

Mobile wall hanging

Interactive poster

Snap-body parts

Yes/No Game

Dominoes- Colours in French- we had to learn some French to play this game 
It helped to make us feel like Year 0/1's so we could understand their needs. We also understood how important 
prior knowledge or a way of checking our answers was for our stakeholders

Double sided maths dominoes

To design great outcomes we need to understand how existing outcomes help us to learn too....

Pop up page-box fold-good layout-clear information

or maybe not....

Pop up page-box fold-bad layout-picture covers the information-split words-
information sticking out which will get damaged easily

We used thinking hats and prompts to analyse our outcomes and wrote key attributes for our new outcome

Some of our key attributes were...

It must have clear/printed writing
It must be easy to read
It must use clear pictures/images
It must have no sharp edges- for safety
It must be laminated- for durability
It must be fun
It should be in colour

Next week we will be designing and making prototypes- using key attributes as our focus

Technology: Pizzas

We have been making pizzas- real ones with a bread base. 

Our recipe for bread

500g (3 cups) High Grade flour

1/2 tblsp (7g) salt

1tsp (5g) dried yeast

300ml warm water

We made the dough, kneaded it and let it prove.....

Then we shaped the dough and spread on our sauce

Our sauce recipe is...

1 tin of tomato puree

1/2 teaspoon of herbs

1/2 teaspoon of paprika

1/2 teaspoon garlic

some sugar to sweeten the bitter tomato

We then heated it in a saucepan to develop the flavours

Then we added some grated tasty and mozzarella cheese

Tasty cheese has a strong flavour so we can use less of it to get the same cheesy taste- which keeps the fat content low

We also added grated mozzarella for a different texture- mozzarella is a much lower fat cheese then tasty cheese

Tasty and mozzarella cheeses don't burn at a high temperatures- which is why we can use them on pizzas

Then we cooked the pizza at a high temperature- to kill the yeast in the dough

Yum!

Technology: Newsletter Term 3

Technology: Easy pizzas

Our students have learned how to design and make easy pizzas....this is a healthy, easy, quick snack that anyone can make.... just ask for permission to use the oven...

Take any carbohydrate base.... English muffin, French bread, crumpet, white slice, tortillas etc

Then add tomato puree, tinned tomatoes etc

Then add cheese and any topping you want.
We used grated tasty cheese because it gives a strong flavour so we don't have to use too much of it. We also used mozzarella as it is a lower fat cheese and gives a good texture.

Then cook in the oven until the cheese has melted and all toppings are heated through- approx 10 mins

We added beans too but not the sauce- yum!

Here is an example of some designs- we labelled the nutrition too

Maranatha- Room 26