Curriculum

Economic World

Place and Environment

Continuity and Change

Level 1: Understand that people have different roles and responsibilities as part of their participation in groups.

Level 2: Understand how people make choices to meet their needs and wants | Understand how places influence people and people influence places | Understand how time and change affect people's lives.

Level 3: Understand how groups make and implement rules (and laws) | Understand how people view and use places differently | Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of resources.

Level 4: Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities | Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments | Understand that events have causes and effects | Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.

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Physical World

Physical inquiry and physics concepts

• Levels 1-2: Explore everyday examples of physical phenomena (electricity).

• Innovation at Kate Valley (methane capture for electricity generation)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gases (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Material World

Chemistry and society

• Levels 3-4: Relate the observed characteristic chemical and physical properties of a range of different materials to technological uses and natural processes (landfill liner, decomposition, methane).

• Innovation at Kate Valley (state-of-the-art liner)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gases (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Living World

Ecology

• Levels 2: Recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat.
• Level 3-4: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced.

• Kate Valley Biodiversity Project (Tiromoana Bush restoration)
• The Environment and Modern Landfills (soluble run-off, noise, odours, wind-blown rubbish, visual considerations)
• Innovation at Kate Valley (extensive environmental monitoring and testing)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gases (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Planet Earth and Beyond

Interacting Systems

• Levels 1-2: Describe how natural features are changed and resources affected by natural events and human actions.

• Innovation at Kate Valley (origin of Kate Valley landfill)
• Why do Landfills Exist? (the modern landfill)
• The Environment and Modern Landfills (extreme events - earthquakes, wind and rain)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gases (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Nature of Technology

• Level 2: Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and the environment and increases people’s capability.
• Level 3: Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in historical and contemporary contexts and that technological knowledge is validated by successful function.
• Level 4: Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Characteristics of technological outcomes

• Level 2: Understand that technological outcomes are developed through technological practice and have related physical and functional nature.
• Level 3: Understand that technological outcomes are recognisable as fit for purpose by the relationship between their physical and functional natures.
• Level 4: Understand that technological outcomes can be interpreted in terms of how they might be used and by whom and that each has a proper function as well as possible alternative functions.

• Innovation at Kate Valley (state-of-the-art liner, extensive environmental monitoring and testing, modern machinery, trucks with real-time cameras and GPS, methane capture for electricity generation)
• Who Works at a Landfill and What Do They Do? (technology in people's work)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gas (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Technological Knowledge

Technological systems

• Level 2: Understand that there are relationships between the inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs occurring within technological systems.
• Level 3: Understand that technological systems are represented by symbolic language tools and understand the role played by the “black box” in technological systems.
• Level 4: Understand how technological systems employ control to allow for the transformation of inputs to outputs.

Technological products

• Level 2: Understand that there is a relationship between a material used and its performance properties in a technological product.
• Level 3: Understand the relationship between the materials used and their performance properties in technological products.
• Level 4: Understand that materials can be formed, manipulated, and/or transformed to enhance the fitness for purpose of a technological product.

• Innovation at Kate Valley (state-of-the-art liner, extensive environmental monitoring and testing, modern machinery, trucks with real-time cameras and GPS, methane capture for electricity generation)
• Organic Waste and Landfill Gas (methane capture for electricity generation and reducing environmental harm)

Speaking, Writing and Presenting 

1. Uses an increasing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts.
2. Creates a range of texts by integrating sources of information and processing strategies with increasing confidence.

1. Making the connection between web conferences, background pages, videos, and own discussion when generating written responses.
2. Assimilate information from web conferences, background pages, and videos to create a range of texts.

Listening, Reading and Viewing

1. Selects and reads for enjoyment and personal fulfilment.
2. Recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language.
3. Integrates sources of information and prior knowledge confidently to make sense of increasingly varied and complex texts.
4. Thinks critically about texts with increasing understanding and confidence.

1. Printed copies of background pages could be part of classroom library.
2. Making links between web conferences, background pages, and videos.
3. Web conferences, web conference chat pod, videos, and diaries can be used to make sense of background pages and diaries and generate questions to put to experts for further clarification.