Technology Units
Junior- Middle

Topic: Frames	Contexts: Personal, Home, school	Areas: Structures and Mechanisms, ICT, Materials
Year 2-4	Level One- two
Resources:	Digital camera. http://kidsartscrafts.about.com/cs/pictureframes/index_2.htm Picture frames and craft site http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/pictureframes/ instructions on how to make basic frames. Photo frame examples, materials collected for frames, art supplies of glue, scissors, craft knives. Finished digital photographs of individual students with annotations
Situation:	We have taken digital photos of ourselves at school doing the things we most enjoy. We have written a message and would like to give this photo in a frame to our parents for Christmas.
Design Brief:	Design a frame that will enhance and complement your photograph.
Specifications:	needs to be stable, be the right size for the photo, be able to be stood up or hung, suit the theme of our photo, show off our photo attractively
Technological Knowledge and Understanding Objective: Level 2:3 describe how particular groups of people carry out technological activities such as picture framers Learning Experiences: collect a variety of frames (from home, magazines, trip to local framing shop) to identify styles, structures and decorations. Discuss what sort of frames would suit their photos visit a local framer, prepare questions to ask about frames. Prepare flow chart recording the stages of how frames can be made pull apart old frames and identify different parts and how they stand up and/or are hung
Technological Capability Objective: Level 1:6c discuss their ideas, intentions, progress and outcomes with others Learning Experiences: identify what sort of materials and tools will be needed make a plan that illustrates how the frame will look, what the specifications are, what the measurements are and what materials will need to be used make a mock up frame using cartridge paper, test according to specifications present finished plan and mock up to group and teacher for feedback use materials to make final product
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 ask parents, relatives, teenagers what do they look for in a frame. Prepare a questionnaire that identifies what people like and why discuss what pictures are specially framed at home and at school and for what purpose
Assessment
Objective Level 2:3 describe how particular groups of people carry out technological activities such as picture framers	Assessment Task: visit a local framer, prepare questions to ask about frames. Prepare flow chart recording the stages of how frames can be made	Achieving at Level 3 compare how different groups of people carry out technological activities such as different types of picture framers	Achieving at Level 2 describe how particular groups of people carry out technological activities such as picture framers	Achieving at Level 1 share ideas about how a particular group of people carry out technological activities such as picture framers
Objective L.2: 6c able to show and describe egs. of their intentions, progress, and outcomes to others	Assessment Task: test the ideas out on the intended consumers and record responses, share their solutions with the rest of the class	Achieving at Level 3 present designs, plans, and outcomes to selected groups, using suitable means of communication	Achieving at Level 2 able to show and describe egs. of their intentions, progress, and outcomes to others	Achieving at Level 1 able to discuss ideas, intentions, progress & outcomes with others

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