Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2A Grade 8 CPI 3

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: A - Nature and Impact of Technology

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 3 - The student will describe how one technological innovation can be applied to solve another human problem that enhances human life or extends human capability.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·       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 Language Arts Framework activity for Standard 3.3 Speaking - Make Me a Copy Please: A Project in Explaining and Following Directions at http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Language_Arts/Listening_Comprehension/LST0002.html adapt for 8th grade and relate to a technology topic.

 

·       Develop a simulation device (does not have to really work) that would allow a person to live in space for several hours during a space walk (EVA). Document what each part of the device would do. Research how NASA astronauts work and live in space.

 

·       Design and construct a device that is temporarily attached to the hand of a handicapped person with only partial use of one hand. The device must allow the person to press keys of the computer. The person cannot move his/her fingers well enough to type. The device should press one letter at a time if necessary. The person cannot write and has trouble talking so this would enhance the person’s ability to communicate. The device must be comfortable, easy to attach, and work dependably.

 

·       Resource: NASA’s education site: http://www.education.nasa.gov/home/index.html

 

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