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K–12 Standards

Technology Foundations (8403)

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Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities

  • 1.

    Demonstrate creativity and innovation.8403.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.8403.2

  • 3.

    Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.8403.3

  • 4.

    Demonstrate integrity.8403.4

  • 5.

    Demonstrate work ethic.8403.5

Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills

  • 6.

    Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.8403.6

  • 7.

    Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.8403.7

  • 8.

    Demonstrate respect for diversity.8403.8

  • 9.

    Demonstrate customer service skills.8403.9

  • 10.

    Collaborate with team members.8403.10

Demonstrating Professional Competencies

  • 11.

    Demonstrate big-picture thinking.8403.11

  • 12.

    Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.8403.12

  • 13.

    Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.8403.13

  • 14.

    Manage time and resources.8403.14

  • 15.

    Demonstrate information-literacy skills.8403.15

  • 16.

    Demonstrate an understanding of information security.8403.16

  • 17.

    Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.8403.17

  • 18.

    Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.8403.18

  • 19.

    Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.8403.19

  • 20.

    Demonstrate professionalism.8403.20

  • 21.

    Demonstrate reading and writing skills.8403.21

  • 22.

    Demonstrate workplace safety.8403.22

Examining All Aspects of an Industry

  • 23.

    Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.8403.23

  • 24.

    Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.8403.24

  • 25.

    Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.8403.25

  • 26.

    Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.8403.26

  • 27.

    Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.8403.27

  • 28.

    Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.8403.28

  • 29.

    Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.8403.29

  • 30.

    Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.8403.30

Addressing Elements of Student Life

  • 31.

    Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.8403.31

  • 32.

    Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.8403.32

  • 33.

    Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.8403.33

  • 34.

    Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.8403.34

Exploring Work-Based Learning

  • 35.

    Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.8403.35

  • 36.

    Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.8403.36

  • 37.

    Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.8403.37

  • 38.

    Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.8403.38

Exploring Technology Foundations

  • 39.

    Define technology.8403.39

  • 40.

    Explain the characteristics and scope of technology.8403.40

  • 41.

    Identify the core concepts of technology.8403.41

  • 42.

    Describe the basic systems model.8403.42

  • 43.

    Distinguish between an open- and closed-loop system.8403.43

  • 44.

    Explain how systems may have varying outputs.8403.44

  • 45.

    List technological resources and their function in a system.8403.45

  • 46.

    Explain what process does in a system.8403.46

  • 47.

    Identify the seven resources for a particular technological system.8403.47

  • 48.

    Describe an engineering design process that is used to design a product.8403.48

  • 49.

    Identify common technological processes that convert materials or energy to produce an output or solution.8403.49

  • 50.

    Describe the core areas of STEM.8403.50

  • 51.

    Use the Pythagorean theorem during a problem-solving activity8403.51

  • 52.

    Identify career opportunities in a variety of technological contexts.8403.52

Understanding Technological Systems

  • 53.

    Illustrate the concept of a technological system.8403.53

  • 54.

    Distinguish between a system and a subsystem.8403.54

  • 55.

    Analyze the effects of technological systems on society and the environment.8403.55

Analyzing Consumer Products

  • 56.

    Define consumer.8403.56

  • 57.

    Explain how human factors engineering applies to product design.8403.57

  • 58.

    Describe ways consumer products have shaped society and the environment.8403.58

  • 59.

    Select a consumer product to analyze.8403.59

  • 60.

    Collect product data.8403.60

  • 61.

    Reverse engineer a product.8403.61

  • 62.

    Analyze how a product works, using mathematical and scientific concepts.8403.62

  • 63.

    Describe an innovation that would improve a product.8403.63

  • 64.

    Draw illustrations of an improved product.8403.64

  • 65.

    Construct models of an improved product.8403.65

  • 66.

    Represent 3D objects on a two-dimensional surface.8403.66

  • 67.

    Create a display or multimedia presentation of an improved product, emphasizing STEM concepts.8403.67

  • 68.

    Present recorded information about a product using multimedia.8403.68

Using Materials as a Technological Resource

  • 69.

    Classify materials as either natural or synthetic.8403.69

  • 70.

    Classify materials according to the major types.8403.70

  • 71.

    Explain how material resources are processed.8403.71

  • 72.

    Create a detailed diagram for producing a designed product/model/prototype.8403.72

  • 73.

    Use tools, machines, and processes to change materials to produce a designed product.8403.73

  • 74.

    Select the best material for a specific design application.8403.74

  • 75.

    Predict the outcomes of some technological processes.8403.75

  • 76.

    Develop a design using recycled materials.8403.76

Using Energy as a Technological Resource

  • 77.

    Identify the two types of energy.8403.77

  • 78.

    Analyze forms of energy.8403.78

  • 79.

    Identify the sources of energy used with technological devices.8403.79

  • 80.

    Model the use of energy with mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal systems.8403.80

  • 81.

    Map the path of current and emerging energy supplies from their source to end-users.8403.81

  • 82.

    Compare methods to conserve energy through technological modification.8403.82

Controlling an Electronic System

  • 83.

    Analyze a problem whose solution uses electronic controls.8403.83

  • 84.

    Describe the different methods for using electronically controlled devices.8403.84

  • 85.

    Use engineering design to solve an identified problem using an electronically controlled device .8403.85

  • 86.

    Construct a functional model of an electronically controlled device.8403.86

  • 87.

    Control a device with a microcontroller.8403.87

  • 88.

    Present information about an electronically controlled device.8403.88

Designing a Product

  • 89.

    Evaluate the needs and wants of people in school, home, community, or world that could be met through technological change.8403.89

  • 90.

    Write a statement that defines a problem, challenge, need, or opportunity.8403.90

  • 91.

    Collect information about a technological problem to be solved.8403.91

  • 92.

    Generate potential solutions to the problem, challenge, need, or opportunity.8403.92

  • 93.

    Select the best solution for a problem.8403.93

  • 94.

    Construct a prototype of the best solution.8403.94

  • 95.

    Evaluate the solution by comparing it with the problem statement, constraints, and criteria.8403.95

  • 96.

    Present the final product.8403.96

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Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12
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