Standards in this Framework
| Standard | Description |
|---|---|
| 3.5.6-8.A | Research information from various sources to use and maintain technological products or systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.B | Use instruments to gather data on the performance of everyday products. |
| 3.5.6-8.C | Hypothesize what alternative outcomes (individual, cultural, and/or environmental) might have resulted had a different technological solution been selected. |
| 3.5.6-8.D | Analyze how the creation and use of technologies consumes renewable, non-renewable, and inexhaustible resources; creates waste; and may contribute to environmental challenges. |
| 3.5.6-8.E | Consider the impacts of a proposed or existing technology and devise strategies for reducing, reusing, and recycling waste caused by its creation. |
| 3.5.6-8.F | Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, live, and communicate. |
| 3.5.6-8.G | Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by the context and circumstances in which it is developed. |
| 3.5.6-8.H | Evaluate trade-offs based on various perspectives as part of a decision process that recognizes the need for careful compromises among competing factors. |
| 3.5.6-8.I | Examine the ways that technology can have both positive and negative effects at the same time. |
| 3.5.6-8.J | Use tools, materials, and machines to safely diagnose, adjust, and repair systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.K | Use devices to control technological systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.L | Design methods to gather data about technological systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.M | Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved. |
| 3.5.6-8.N | Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. |
| 3.5.6-8.O | Interpret the accuracy of information collected. |
| 3.5.6-8.P | Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. |
| 3.5.6-8.Q | Apply a technology and engineering design thinking process. |
| 3.5.6-8.R | Develop innovative products and systems that solve problems and extend capabilities based on individual or collective needs and wants. |
| 3.5.6-8.S | Illustrate the benefits and opportunities associated with different approaches to design. |
| 3.5.6-8.T | Create solutions to problems by identifying and applying human factors in design. |
| 3.5.6-8.U | Evaluate and assess the strengths and weaknesses of various design solutions given established principles and elements of design. |
| 3.5.6-8.V | Refine design solutions to address criteria and constraints. |
| 3.5.6-8.W | Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions. |
| 3.5.6-8.X | Defend decisions related to a design problem. |
| 3.5.6-8.Y | Compare, contrast, and identify overlap between the contributions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the development of technological systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.Z | Analyze how different technological systems often interact with economic, environmental, and social systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.AA | Adapt and apply an existing product, system, or process to solve a problem in a different setting. |
| 3.5.6-8.BB | Demonstrate how knowledge gained from other content areas affects the development of technological products and systems. |
| 3.56-8.CC | Consider historical factors that have contributed to the development of technologies and human progress. |
| 3.5.6-8.DD | Engage in a research and development process to simulate how inventions and innovations have evolved through systematic tests and refinements. |
| 3.5.6-8.EE | Differentiate between inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in technological systems. |
| 3.5.6-8.FF | Demonstrate how systems thinking involves considering relationships between every part, as well as how the systems interact with the environment in which it is used. |
| 3.5.6-8.GG | Create an open-loop system that has no feedback path and requires human intervention. |
| 3.5.6-8.HH | Create a closed-loop system that has a feedback path and requires no human intervention. |
| 3.5.6-8.II | Predict outcomes of a future product or system at the beginning of the design process. |
| 3.5.6-8.JJ | Apply informed problem-solving strategies to the improvement of existing devices or processes or the development of new approaches. |
| 3.5.6-8.KK | Explain how technology and engineering are closely linked to creativity, which can result in both intended and unintended innovations. |
| 3.5.6-8LL | Compare how different technologies involve different sets of processes. |
