Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2A Grade 8 CPI 4

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: A - Nature and Impact of Technology

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 -  The student will describe how technological activity has an affect on economic development, political actions, and cultural change.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       Statistics indicate that drugs have an impact on worker productivity and safety. Develop a program or campaign focusing on the reduction of substance abuse in the community and in the workplace

 

·       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.

 

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

 

·       Recycling Plant for Plastics. Identify what types of plastic can be recycled and the types that can’t at this time. State the impacts plastic recycling has on the environment (positive and negative). Prepare a presentation using educational technology software for selling the idea of a recycling plant built in your town.

 

·       Plan a pleasant Senior Citizen Home. What support services are needed? Identify specific rooms for use by special interest residents as well as resident sleeping facilities? What are some basic technology devices that would be needed to make life easier?

 

·       Investigate how space travel, use of satellites and space stations have changed in the U.S.  Give economic, political, and cultural reasons for the changes.