STANDARD 8.2 (Technology Education) by Grade 8
Strands with Cumulative Progress Indicators
A. Nature and Impact of Technology
- Describe the nature of technology and the consequences of technological activity.
- Describe how components of a technological product, system, or environment interact.
- Describe how one technological innovation can be applied to solve another human problem that enhances human life or extends human capability.
- Describe how technological activity has an affect on economic development, political actions, and cultural change.
- Explain the cultural and societal effects resulting from the dramatic increases of knowledge and information available today.
B. Design Process and Impact Assessment
- Demonstrate and explain how the design process is not linear.
- Use hands on activities to analyze products and systems to determine how the design process was applied to create the solution.
- Identify a technological problem and use the design process to create an appropriate solution.
- Describe how variations in resources can affect solutions to a technological problem.
- Select and safely use appropriate tools and materials in analyzing, designing, modeling or making a technological product, system or environment.
C. Systems in the Designed World
- Explain technological advances in medical, agricultural, energy and power, information and communication, transportation, manufacturing, and construction technologies.
- Explain reasons why human-designed systems, products, and environments need to be monitored, maintained, and improved to ensure safety, quality, cost efficiency, and sustainability.
- Explain the functions and interdependence of subsystems such as waste disposal, water purification, electrical, structural, safety, climatic control, and communication.
