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Content Area: Technological Literacy
Index: 8.2C Grade 8 CPI 1
Standard:8.2 - Technology Education
Strand: C - Systems in the Designed World
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will explain technological advances in medical, agricultural, energy and power, information and communication, transportation, manufacturing, and construction technologies.
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.
· Today’s Farmer: You are starting a farm to grow vegetables in New Jersey. What equipment are you going to have to purchase for corn, turnips, green beans, and cabbage. Your supplies and equipment will need to address- tilling the soil, irrigation, planting the seeds, harvesting, and getting crops to market. Investigate what state –of –the –art technology is there to use. Each person in the class takes a topic to research and report back. This activity will require several brainstorming sessions to reduce wasted time. Each person produces multimedia/PowerPoint slides to be linked with everyone else’s for one class presentation.
· Our Modular Home: Class is divided into a design/construction teams. The class is to design a house with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, kitchen, family room, living room, dining room, laundry room, deck, and a two car attached garage. Each room must have a doorway and at least one window. The house must have a front door and one or more backdoors. The design may not allow one bedroom to exit into another room to exit. Each team designs a room and makes the room out of oak tag (floors, walls, an opening, etc.). The rooms from each team must connect to make the house complete. A scale to draw and build from must be agreed on before starting.
· Energy
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