22/23 School Year

Welcome to Mr. McGonagil's Intro to Technology Home Page

Here you will find the Lessons and important notes from classes and any cool or pertinent information about Technology in current media coverage that I feel is worth hearing about.

Introduction to Technology

2022 School Year

Welcome to Introduction to Technology! This is going to be a fun class with many opportunities to create, think outside the box, learn about different forms of technology and get your hands dirty with different activities. You will be expected to take the knowledge you already have, combine it with new concepts and apply it all to solve problems that will be presented to you during this class. The solutions you come up with will require you to actively participate in the building of your proposed solution. Students will have the opportunity to complete lessons from the below list, but I will add more lessons from our district Technology teacher's Remote learning ideas as well.

UNIT 1: History of Tech

Group presentations

UNIT 2: Shop Safety

Group dynamics/safety quizzes

UNIT 3: 3D Design and Printing

Tinkercad and Thingiverse - brainstorm something you can make better - new design

UNIT 4: Space/Flight Aeronautics

2-liter soda bottle rockets

UNIT 5: Shop Safety Review/Wood Shop

Competitive Race car or Creative Clipboard

UNIT 6: Electronics

Assemble and solder your own electronics kit

Extra (if time): Lathe. Turning pens.

Standards

· Safe and Proper use of Equipment STCO.09 Understand and demonstrate the importance of health, safety and environmental management systems.

· Design Cycle – Investigate MS-ETS-1

· Design Cycle – Design & Plan MS-ETS-2

· Design Cycle – Evaluate MS-ETS-3

· Design Cycle – Create MS-ETS-4

Classroom Environment and Expectations:

· Prompt- be on time, in your seat and copying down the warm up question when class starts.

· Prepared- bring supplies such as paper, pencil, planner, project supplies etc.

· Polite- respect will be shown to people and property at all times.

· PMA- this class does not work without you mentally engaged at all times.

· Participate- your participation is key to your success in the class.

· Produce – have good workmanship by doing your assignments and projects conscientiously.

· Trustworthy- there are many safety and material issues in this class and it is important that you use wise judgment.

Absences:

· It is YOUR responsibility to find out what you missed.

· Class projects are difficult to make up and therefore you attendance is important.

Materials for class:

· We will be using many different materials for class. A kit will be assembled for first quarter students remotely attending class. All you need to complete the lessons will be in the kit.

Grading:

· Projects, reports and tests will count as assessment grades 70%

· Journal questions, warm ups, classwork and homework will count as 30%

· Missed projects can be made up… See Mr. McGonagil for specifics.

· Grades are updated weekly. Check them through ParentVue on Synergy!

Contact:

If you need to contact me for any reason please email me at jmcgonagil@psdschools.org or call my classroom at 488-5467. I will teach remotely this year from my classroom at Kinard every day but cannot answer telephone calls during instruction time. Leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

We are currently working on Technology Era Presentations .

Our next lesson will be Safety Quizzes (Group Dynamics), then we will start Woodshop.

Start saving empty 2-liter bottles for our aeronautics project coming soon!