Standard 5 Students will: apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs. |
Tools, Resources and Technological Processes Key Idea: Technological tools, materials, and other resources should be selected on the basis of safety, cost, availability, appropriateness, and environmental impact; technological processes change energy, information, and material resources into more useful forms. |
| Performance Indicators--Students will: |
| Elementary | Intermediate |
Commencement |
| • explore, use, and
process a variety of materials and energy sources to design and construct things • understand the importance of safety, cost, • develop basic skill in the use of hand tools • use simple manufacturing processes (e.g., assembly, multiple stages of production, quality control) to produce a product • use appropriate graphic and electronic tools and techniques to process information |
• choose and use resources for a particular purpose based upon
an analysis and understanding of their properties, costs, availability, and environmental
impact • use a variety of hand tools and machines to change materials into new forms through forming, separating, and combining processes, and processes which cause internal change to occur • combine manufacturing processes with other technological processes to produce, market, and distribute a product • process energy into other forms and information into more meaningful information |
• test, use, and describe the attributes of a range of material
(including synthetic and composite materials), information, and energy resources • select appropriate tools, instruments, and equipment and use them correctly to process materials, energy, and information • explain tradeoffs made in selecting alternative resources in terms of safety, cost, properties, availability, ease of processing, and disposability • describe and model methods (including computer-based methods) to control system processes and monitor system outputs |