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.

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 outputs of a technological system can be desired, undesired, expected, or unexpected.
describe through examples how modern technology reduces manufacturing and construction costs and produces more uniform products.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     use the automobile, for example, to explain desired (easier travel), undesired (pollution), expected (new jobs created), unexpected (crowded highways and the growth of suburbs) impacts.
     provide an example of an assembly line that produces products with interchangeable parts.
     compare the costs involved in producing a prototype of a product to the per product cost of a batch of 100.