Technology Units
Senior

Topic: Post a Package	Contexts: Business, Personal, Community, Home	Areas: Materials, structures and mechanisms
Year 4-6	Level 2-3
Resources:	NZ post, Packaging companies, Carter Holt Harvey, coloured paper, scissors, plastic cling wrap, speakers, various types of glue, cardboard, tape and cutting materials, visiting speaker from a Post Office
Situation:	we are sending a precious gift to our friends and relations to mark a special occasion but buying suitable packaging can be so expensive and we have a limited budget
Design Brief:	you need to plan and make a package suitable for protecting and supporting your gift
Specifications:	- specific size and dimensions 12cm x 9cm x 4cm - you are able to use all of the materials available for joining from the technology table - your package must protect your gift - your entire package and gift cannot weigh too much - your package should be suitably decorated
Technological Knowledge and Understanding Objective: Level 2:2b identify and ideas about modifications and adaptations in familiar technologies Learning Experiences: 1. inspect what gift we are sending, identify possible problems or potential damage that may occur to the gift 2. display existing packages and possible costs 3. examine existing packaging and identify what components it has to make it a suitable package to encase something precious 4. examine and compare what decorations have been used on commercial packages 5. pull different shape boxes apart to see how they are made 6. using cardboard and net patterns experiment making different kinds of boxes 7. investigate which companies are responsible for designing and making packages, prepare questions to ask a visiting speaker from one of these companies
Technological Capability Objective: Level 2:6a discuss possible solutions and strategies, and select and develop a suitable option Learning Experiences: 1. draw plans of intended packages, include steps for making and identification of materials to be used 2. create mock-up of different plans and identify which is the best design according to your own set criteria and specifications 3. choose suitable materials and make package, testing and evaluating as you go
Technology and Society Objective: Level 2:8 explore and compare the roles of some example of technology in daily life in their own and another time or place 1. create a survey that will inform you of peoples experiences 'good and bad' of receiving packages through the mail 2. find out from various information sources how packages have been sent in the past, how methods have changed and how packaging has changed with evolving technology. Create a time line 3. discuss the impact of the postal system in the 20th and 21st century
Assessment
Objective Level 2:8 explore and compare the roles of some example of technology in daily life in their own and another time or place	Assessment Task: find out from various information sources how packages have been sent in the past, how methods have changed and how packaging has changed with evolving technology. Create a time line. Discuss the impact of the postal system in the 20th and 21st century	Achieving at Level 3 describe and identify the positive and negative effects of some instances of technologies on people's lives and the environment	Achieving at Level 2 explore and compare the roles of some example of technology in daily life in their own and another time or place	Achieving at Level 1 share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives
Objective Level 2:2b identify and ideas about modifications and adaptations in familiar technologies	Assessment Task: examine existing packaging and identify what components it has to make it a suitable package to encase something precious. List all the requirements and explain how they are used	Achieving at Level 3 explore and describe how components are linked in a technological system	Achieving at Level 2 identify and ideas about modifications and adaptations in familiar technologies	Achieving at Level 1 ask questions and share ideas about familiar technological systems

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