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Technology For Year Two Children

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This report is designed for Year 2 students. The main objective of this report is for the students to develop and challenge their thinking skills on how the technology of clock works in the past and in present. Children will be able to compare the past and present technology using the antique keywound pendulum clock to a digital clock.
In 1657, Christiaan Huygens introduced the pendulum clock. This particular pendulum clock (image above) was made in 1700’s owned by the author’s husband great grandparents. It is an antique clock and it was made of solid wood and a key wound with a swinging pendulum that generates the work of this clock. This clock needs to be wound once a week in order for the clock to run. This is done by inserting the key …show more content…

The clock chimed once every half an hour and it chimed many times depending on what hour it is. For example, if it is six o’clock, it will chime 6 times or 10 o’clock, it will chime 10 times. The time accuracy of this clock is not as good as the battery powered such as digital clock (Pook, 2011).

The relevance of this artefact
In exploring this artefact, children will develop their ability and their capacity to use their inquiry method and skills (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2016). Children will develop the ability to ask a questions, children become more observant, more inquisitive, and more reflective. Inquiry base approach helps children to view themselves as the constructor of their own knowledge and shape their own learning (Early Childhood Australia, 2012). This artefact will …show more content…

ACARA (2016) states that children will learn to examine the effect of the technology on people’s lives, and develop a better understanding of how people lived differently in the past. In this artefact, children would be able to compare how the technology of clocks evolved from the past and in present. They will inquire on how the technology affects people’s lives and how it played in the past (ACHASSK046) (ACARA, 2016); and the impact of changing technology on people's lives (e.g. at home, work, travel, communication, leisure, toys) and how the technology of the past differs from what is used today (ACHHK046) (School Curriculum and Standards Authority, Government of Western Australia, 2014). According to ACARA (20106) that children would “identify technologies used in the childhoods of their grandparents or familiar elders and in their own childhood, and finding out where each was produced”. Through this artefact, children can identify and compare what kind of clocks that their grandparent used in the past, and children can compare and contrast the difference between the features and the sound of pendulum clocks to a digital clock. Children will be given an opportunity to conduct an investigation on how the pendulum clock works by exploring the feature of the clock, setting up and winding the pendulum clock. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) (2009) state that through exploration and involvement,

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