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.

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:

     choose and use resources for a particular purpose based upon an analysis and understanding of their properties, costs, availability, and environmental impact.
     use a variety of hand tools and machines to change materials into new forms through forming, separating, and combining processes, and processes which cause internal change to occur.
     combine manufacturing processes with other technological processes to produce, market, and distribute a product.
     process energy into other forms and information into more meaningful information.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     choose and use resources to make a model of a building and explain their choice of materials based upon physical properties such as tensile and compressive strength, hardness, and brittleness
     choose materials based upon their acoustic properties to make a set of wind chimes.
     use a torch to heat a steel rod to a cherry red color and cool it slowly to demonstrate how the process of annealing changes the internal structure of the steel and removes its brittleness.
     change materials into new forms using separate processes such as drilling and sawing.
     process energy into other forms such as assembling a solar cooker using a parabolic reflector to convert light energy to heat energy.
     process information into more meaningful information such as adding a music track or sound effects to an audio tape.