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 - Intermediate

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

History and Evolution of Technology

5. Technology has been the driving force in the evolution of society from an agricultural to an industrial to an information base.

Students:

     describe how the evolution of technology led to the shift in society from an agricultural base to an industrial base to an information base.
     understand the contributions of people of different genders, races, and ethnic groups to technological development.
     describe how new technologies have evolved as a result of combining existing technologies (e.g., photography combined optics and chemistry; the airplane combined kite and glider technology with a lightweight gasoline engine).

This is evident, for example, when students:

     construct models of technological devices (e.g., the plow, the printing press, the digital computer) that have significantly affected human progress and that illustrate how the evolution of technology has shifted the economic base of the country.
     develop a display of pictures or models of technological devices invented by people from various cultural backgrounds, along with photographs and short biographies of the inventors.
     make a poster with drawings and photographs showing how an existing technology is the result of combining various technologies.