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Section 2 Planning Technology Education Introductory note to the technology component In the illustration of a nine-year plan for environmental studies set out above, a number of topics and tasks are identified as having a major or minor focus on technology. These are the activities that would make a significant contribution to the development of the technological capability of a pupil following this plan from P1 to S2. In the remainder of this guide, further information on these activities is provided in order to illustrate how, in a practical way, the guidelines for technology 5-14 can be implemented. In total, 18 activities are exemplified. These have been chosen to give a reasonable coverage of the 5-14 stages and to provide illustration of: the implications of 5-14 curriculum principles for planning technology education the planning of topics or tasks teaching, learning and assessing in the classroom. For a comprehensive understanding of the issues being addressed, readers will need to consider activities at all stages, not just the ones that they teach. Topics and tasks are described below in one of three ways: a brief summary, just enough to give the overall idea a plan for teaching in one of several formats commonly used in schools a description of how the activities might develop in class. Note: only the second of these uses the kind of documentation a school might produce. The others are simply ways that have been used in this guide to exemplify ideas. [RETURN TO 5-14 ONLINE] [BACK] [INDEX] [NEXT]