Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2B Grade 8 CPI 2

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: B - Design Process and Impact Assessment

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 - The student will use hands-on activities to analyze products and systems to determine how the design process was applied to create the solution.

 

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

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

·       Use a video camera to document testing results for a model or prototype. Use a VCR to playback in slow motion to analyze what is happening in the mode testing process. Do this before the final test

 

·       Use digital photography for documentation of procedures used in a design process of an item. Photographs are included in an electronic presentations such as PowerPoint. Use to print before and after photos of the testing of the design if appropriate.

 

·       Design a new device for a handicapped person to use to lift and move an object.  Follow the steps in the testing loop process

 

·       Aeronautics

 

·       Structures

 

·       Electronic Toys

 

·       Engineering Motion

 

·       Energy