Content Area: Technological Literacy

 

Index: 8.2B Grade 8 CPI 5

 

Standard:8.2 - Technology Education

 

Strand: B - Design Process and Impact Assessment

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 5 - The student will select and safely use appropriate tools and materials in analyzing, designing, modeling or making a technological product, system or environment.

 

Grade: 8

 

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.

 

·       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.

 

·       Earth is becoming uninhabitable.

 

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

 

·       Hand Tool and Machine Tool Identification: Identify the tools and the function of the tool. Do the same with machines. Identify the safety procedure for the particular tool and machine. Name the types of materials the tool is designed to work.

 

·       Invent a new tool or machine to do a specific task. Identify the safety rules to be followed by the user. Draw the tool or machine. Write what the function is and make a list of the safety procedures. Example: a device that will check how dirty engine oil is so it does not have to be changed by mileages estimates only.

 

·       Resource: N J Safe Schools Regulations Manual and EOSHI. http://www.state.nj.us/njded/schools/safeschools/

 

·       Aeronautics

 

·       Structures

 

·       Electronic Toys

 

·       Engineering Motion

 

·       Energy