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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.

Tools, Resources, and Technological Process

2. Technological tools, materials, and other resources should be selected on the basis of safety, cost, availability, appropriateness, and environmental impact; technological processes change energy, information, and material resources into more useful forms.

Students:

     explore, use, and process a variety of materials and energy sources to design and construct things.
     understand the importance of safety, cost, ease of use, and availability in selecting tools and resources for a specific purpose.
     develop basic skill in the use of hand tools.
     use simple manufacturing processes (e.g., assembly, multiple stages of production, quality control) to produce a product.
     use appropriate graphic and electronic tools and techniques to process information.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     explore and use materials, joining them with the use of adhesives and mechanical fasteners to make a cardboard marionette with moving parts.
     explore materials and use forming processes to heat and bend plastic into a shape that can hold napkins.
     explore energy sources by making a simple motor that uses electrical energy to produce continuous mechanical motion
     develop skill with a variety of hand tools and use them to make or fix things.
     process information electronically such as using a video system to advertise a product or service.
     process information graphically such as taking photos and developing and printing the pictures.