TechnoPush Resources

Useful references, web sites and organisations to contact.

Pushcart Resources

• Theory and Mechanics of building your pushcart
• Teaching strategies
• Connecting KLAs
• Showcase your class' achievements 
• Examples and pictures

All this and more in the pushcart resource pages!

Science and Technology K-6 syllabus - this link will take you to the K-6 Science and Technology area of NSW Board of Studies web site.

Quality teaching

Learning in Science and Technology K-6

• Designing and making
• Investigating
• Using Technology - Safety
• Assessment

Making your cart

• Pushcart specifications (PDF 816KB/6 pages)
• Making the frame
• Steering your cart
• Stopping your cart

Where do you get it?

• Construction materials
• Local resources and organisations

• Glossary of terms
• Glossary of terms (PDF 100KB/2 pages)

Print based resources

• Fiction
• Non-fiction

Web sites

• Background information for teachers
• Useful sites for designing and making a pushcart
• Pushcart components
• Just for fun

Teaching strategies

Class management: Cooperative learning
From Supporting Scitech in the Primary school

Jigsaw technique: What is this group strategy? How it came about.

Implementing Jigsaw groups

Connecting KLAs

KLA overview and timeline (PDF 58KB/5 pages) Unit Appendix E.1

KLA activities: 

• Creative Arts (PDF 35KB/3 pages)
• English (PDF 60KB/5 pages)
• HSIE (PDF 111KB/3pages)
• Mathematics (PDF 100KB/6 pages)
• PDHPE (PDF 48KB/2 pages)  

Showcase your class' achievements

Let the rest of the world know about your students' wonderful achievements, by showcasing your accounts of the Challenge on the KDC web site. A brief electronic record of the class' experiences in the KDC-NRMA TechnoPush Challenge may be submitted for inclusion on the Kids' Design Challenge web site showcase.

• Guidelines for the electronic presentation (PDF 25KB/1 page) 
• Using Microsoft Picture Manager to compress images (PDF 331KB/3 pages)
• How to compress images already in Microsoft PowerPoint (PDF 636KB/1 page)

Publicise your success

Contact your local newspaper or other media to promote the school and the local businesses or organisations who supported your teams.