Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2B Grade 12 CPI 6

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: B - Design Process and Impact Assessment

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 6 - The student will create a technological product, system, or environment using given design specifications and constraints by applying design and engineering principles.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

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

 

·       The town has decided to build a new school. Prepare a presentation to convince the local board of education.

 

·        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.

 

·       Domino Dealer

 

·       Fluid Power/Robotics

 

·       The World Series of Mechanisms

 

·       Cast Away at the Edge of the World

 

·       Houston, We Have a Problem & Failure Is Not An Option