Byram Hills Central School District

This information has been taken directly from the Accelerate U - Standards and Resource Guides (with approval) from the K-12 Education, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT site. No information in this document has been changed.

Learning Standards for Mathematics, Science, and Technology at Three Levels

Standard 5 - Technology - Elementary

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Impacts of Technology

6. Technology can have positive and negative impacts on individuals, society, and the environment and humans have the capability and responsibility to constrain or promote technological development.

Students:

describe how technology can have positive and negative effects on the environment and on the way people live and work.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     hand make an item and then participate in a line production experience where a quantity of the item is mass produced; compare the benefits and disadvantages of mass production and craft production.
     describe through example, how familiar technologies (including computers) can have positive and negative impacts on the environment and on the way people live and work.
     identify the pros and cons of several possible packaging materials for a student-made product.