Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2A Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: A - Nature and Impact of Technology

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will describe how components of a technological product, system, or environment interact.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·       Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

·       Climatic conditions have changed in the twenty-first century. Research scientists are looking at the oceans to create habitable communities. Create an underwater community.

 

·       Although New Jersey is well known as the Garden State, it certainly could be recognized as the Invention State. We now live in an increasing complex "global society" with demands for increased invention, design, and manufacturing to make people's lives and work more productive while meeting personal and family needs.

 

·       See the Mathematics Standard 4.5 Framework activity: The Seven Bridges of Kongsberg at http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/bridges1.html. Solve problems of getting around the city using bridges.

 

·       Identify the "Seven Resources of Technology". Demonstrate how they interact and are required to produce a technological outcome. Identify what is needed to build a house and see how it relates to the resources of technology.

 

·       Using a computer with all it’s basic components, identify the component parts as an input, process, output, and feedback device of a system. Describe how the parts interact. Describe how a computer can be used to control an environment such as a house to make it more efficient.

 

·       Resource: How Stuff Works at http://computer.howstuffworks.com/

 

·       Structures

 

·       Electronic Toys

 

·       Engineering Motion

 

·       Energy