“Keep Your Cat inside”, Connected – Are you sure?, level 4, January 2013
26 January 2013
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Data collected from kittycams and other sources show our wildlife is in greater danger from predators such as cats at night.
Find teacher support materials on Literacy Online: "Keep Your Cat Inside"
Other resources
These articles provide more information on the kittycams and helpful suggestions for keeping your cat inside.
Discussion starters
- Brief development: Use this and other examples to establish the key attributes for an outcome (for example, a cat door) informed by stakeholder considerations. (level 4)
- Outcome development and evaluation: Undertake functional modelling to develop design ideas into a conceptual design that addresses the key attributes. (level 4)
- Characteristics of technological outcomes: Use this and other examples to explain how technological outcomes have been successfully used by end-users for purposes other than what they were originally designed for. (level 4)