Technology Education Prioritized Standards 1- 4

Teaching and Learning at RTHS: This workspace for prioritizing and deconstructing standards to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. The standards are designed to provide guidance so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students. Plus help students reflect on the knowledge and skills that they need for success

Prioritized Standards

Standard 01: Characteristics and Scope of Technology

Standard 02: Core Concepts of Technology

Standard 03: Technology Relationships

Standard 04: Effects of Technology

Standard 05: Technology and the Environment

Standard 06: Development and Use of Technology

Standard 07: Influence of Technology

Standard 08: Attributes of Design

Standard 09: Engineering Design

Standard 10: Problem Solving

Standard 11: Application of the Design Process

Standard 12: Technological Products and Systems

Standard 13: Impacts of Products and Systems

Standard 14: Medical Technologies

Standard 15: Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies

Standard 16: Energy and Power Technologies

Standard 17: Information and Communication Technologies

Standard 18: Transportation Technologies

Standard 19: Manufacturing Technologies

Standard 20: Construction Technologies

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Technology Education Targeted Benchmarks

Standard 01: Characteristics and Scope of Technology TEC-MS.01.F Develop new products and systems to solve problems or to help do things that could not be done without the help of technology.

Knowledge Targets

I can identify an example of technology

I can state why technology isn't just an electronic device

I can define technology

Application Targets

I can build a graphic organizer that shows differences in technology products

Product Targets

I can list different examples of technology

I can develop a collage that portrays a variety of technology examples

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Standard 01: Characteristics and Scope of Technology

TEC-MS.01.G Recognize that the development of technology is a human activity, a result of individual or collective needs, and the ability to be creative.

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Technology Education Targeted Benchmarks

Standard 01: Characteristics and Scope of Technology

TEC-MS.01.H Discover how technology is closely linked to creativity which has resulted in innovation.

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Technology Education Targeted Benchmarks

Standard 01: Characteristics and Scope of Technology

TEC-MS.01.I Examine and demonstrate how corporations can often create demand for a product by bringing it onto the market and advertising it.

Middle School (TEC) Targeted Standards

Standard 1 Characteristics and Scope of Technology:

Recognize the characteristics and scope of technology.

TEC-MS.01.mod Module Score for Characteristics and Scope of Technology.

Modules which address this standard - May include - Biotechnology, CADD, CNC Lathe/Manufacturing, Creative Problem Solving, Digital Transportation, Electricity, Electronics, Engineering Bridges/Towers, Energy Power and Mechanics, Flight, Future Fuels, Graphic Communication, Plastics and Polymers, Practical Skills, Robots, Rocketry and Space, Video Production.

*All Modules may not be available at all Middle Schools

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can develop products and systems that can be used to solve problems.

Reasoning Targets

I can explain how technology is related to creativity.

Skills (Performance) Targets

I can utilize innovation to complete a project.

I can safely utilize tools and materials to complete a project.

Product Targets

I can successfully complete a tower/bridge for destructive testing.

I can complete the construction of a wing for testing.

I can successfully build a rocket for testing.

I can successfully utilize the injection molder to manufacturing a golf tee.

Proficiency Scale

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can list the steps in the universal systems model

Reasoning Targets

I can illustrate and label the universal systems model

Application Targets

I can apply the universal systems model to a project

Proficiency Scale

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Standard 03: Technology Relationships

TEC-MS.03.F Correlate how knowledge gained from other fields of study has a direct effect on the development of technological products and systems.

Middle School (TEC) Targeted Standards

Standard 3 Technology Relationships:

Interpret the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields of study.

TEC-MS.03.mod Module Score for Technology Relationships.

Modules which address this standard - May include - Electricity, Electronics, and Geometric Packing

*All Modules may not be available at all Middle Schools

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can define the terms voltage, resistance, current, and circuit.

can explain how electricity is related to electrons and protons.

I can define insulator as it relates to electricity.

I can define conductor as it relates to electricity.

I can find the surface area of a standard object.

I can find the volume of a standard three-dimensional object.

I can recite the Honeycomb Conjecture.

I can define what a tessellation is.

Reasoning Targets

I can define and give an example of static electricity.

I can define, draw, and wire a series circuit.

I can define, draw, and wire a parallel circuit.

I can state Ohm’s law and use it to calculate voltage, resistance, and current.

I can explain how total resistance in a series circuit relates to the value of each resistor.

I can explain the difference between the greatest common divisor, or good, and the least

I can explain what occurs when an object is warped as opposed to when it is torn.

I can explain how transformations using dilatations are used to expand and contract objects.

Skills (Performance) Targets

I can assemble a circuit on the circuit board.

I can demonstrate the proper care of a digital multimeter.

I can identify insulators and conductors in the classroom, other than those on the sample board.

I can find a Fibonacci number based on the Fibonacci sequence.

I can build Pascal’s triangle.

I can rotate, reflect, and translate a figure by hand as well as characterize a polygon.

I can identify the coordinates of any point on a coordinate grid.

I can explain how an object’s coordinates are affected by a rotation, reflection, and/or translation.

Product Targets

I can demonstrate proper use and safety of the soldering iron.

I can solder successfully the end of a practice wire.

I can assemble a solderless circuit.

Proficiency Scale

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Standard 04: Effects of Technology

TEC-MS.04.D Show how the use of technology affects humans in various ways (safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes) about technology's development and use.

Student Learning Targets:

Reasoning Targets

I can explain that the use of technology affects humans in various ways, including their safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes about technology’s development and use.

I can explain why technology, by itself, is neither good nor bad, but decisions about the use of products and systems can result in desirable or undesirable consequences.

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Standard 04: Effects of Technology

TEC-MS.04.F Determine how the development and use of technology poses ethical issues.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can recognize that all technology has the potential to have positive and/or negative results.

I can cite instances where the development of technology has posed ethical issues in society.

Reasoning Targets

I can defend a decision to use or not to use a piece of technology as it poses ethical issues.

Proficiency Scale

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Standard 04: Effects of Technology

TEC-MS.04.G Identify economic, political, and cultural issues influenced by the development and use of technology.

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can cite instances where the development of technology has had an impact on the economy.

I can cite instances where the development of technology has had an impact on the culture of a society

Proficiency Scale

Middle School (TEC) Targeted Standards

Standard 4 Effects of Technology:

Predict cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology.

TEC-MS.04.mod Module Score for Effects of Technology.

Modules which address this standard - May include - Confident Consumer, Future Fuels, and Plastics and Polymers.

*All Modules may not be available at all Middle Schools

Student Learning Targets:

Knowledge Targets

I can find the surface area of a standard object

I can give an example of a unit of measure for length, mass or weight, and volume.

I can name three ways humans used fire.

I can list three examples of nonrenewable energy.

Reasoning Targets

I can describe cyanobacteria’s role in making energy.

I can explain two advantages of using biomass energy.

I can explain two ways waste can be used as fuel.

I can list at least two ways water is used to generate electricity and give advantages and disadvantages of each.

I can explain the concept of conservation of mass.

I can explain advantages and limitations of recycling polymers.

Skills (Performance) Targets

I can explain how to calculate unit price.

I can calculate the unit price, given an item's price and size.

I can create an absorbency ratio.

I can create a strength ratio.

I can draw a diagram of the geothermal activity and explain it to the teacher.

Proficiency Scale