Breadth, Challenge and Application
in Technologies
Transforming lives through learning
CHALLENGE
BREADTH
Use ICT for a presentation or to research topics.
Explore software to learn the scope and limits to
its use.
Craft products using different materials and tools.
Build with construction kits.
Lead team tasks.
Take more responsibility for choosing aspects
to study and pursue these to a conclusion.
Report conclusions to classmates.
Prepare dishes and meals.
Integrate skills from two or more of the
Technologies contexts.
Use different manual and computer-aided
graphical skills.
Integrate different materials or media.
Investigate how engineering can help improve
people’s quality of life.
Take part in open ended tasks which promote
creativity.
APPLICATION
Apply technological skills and knowledge embedded
within courses and programmes.
Reinforce and extend skills by applying them in new,
increasingly demanding settings.
Apply skills from one of the contexts for learning, such
as computing or graphics, across other experiences,
such as design or textiles.
Become aware of the relevance of learning to life
beyond school.
Apply technological skills and knowledge in the wider
life of the school and in interdisciplinary tasks which
make connections across learning.
Transforming lives through learning