Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2A Grade 8 CPI 5

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: A - Nature and Impact of Technology

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will explain the cultural and societal effects resulting from the dramatic increases of knowledge and information available today.

 

Grade: 8

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       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

 

·       An individual wants to select a career pathway….in an area of interest for future employment and postsecondary and lifelong learning

 

·       How Planes Fly - Design a glider that will stay aloft longer than any other team’s design in the class. Design it from Styrofoam meat trays. Research the principles of flight. Identify how the technology of flight has changed. Define how flight has effected society and culture.

 

·        C02 Cars: Design and construct a racer for speed, distance, and looks. Research C02 cars. Research and document how automobiles have affected historical and economic systems of society.

 

·        Resources: Science Benchmarks Project 2061. BOL Ch. 3--The Nature of Technology, http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/ch3/ch3.htm