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.

Technological Systems

4. Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as
products, structures, services, energy, or other systems.

Students:

     select appropriate technological systems on the basis of safety, function, cost, ease of operation, and quality of post purchase support.
     assemble, operate, and explain the operation of simple open- and closed-loop electrical, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic systems.
     describe how subsystems and system elements (inputs, processes, outputs) interact within systems.
     describe how system control requires sensing information, processing it, and making changes.

This is evident, for example, when students:

     assemble an electronic kit that includes sensors and signaling devices and functions as an alarm system.
     use several open loop systems (without feedback control) such as a spray can, bubble gum machine, or wind-up toys, and compare them to closed-loop systems (with feedback
     control) such as an electric oven with a thermostat, or a line tracker robot.
     use a systems diagram to model a technological system, such as a model rocket, with the command inputs, resource inputs, processes, monitoring and control mechanisms, and system outputs labeled.
     provide examples of modern machines where microprocessors receive information from sensors and serve as controllers.