TECHNOLOGY+LAB

= Technology Lab- Miss Gabriel = = = = Highlights = = = = = =Our Lab facilitates Individualized Portfolio Based Research with Problem Based Learning/Projects.=

School Assembly
Where, John H. Finley Campus School, PS/MS 129: Auditorium

= Lower Grades = = =

* Pre K

 * ====** homework- practice using the mouse with Pre K activities on a computer at home. **====

** * Second Grade- Connection Connection Way to go! **
=Upper Elementary=
 * **Please bring in supplies and your parents'/caretakers email address for Living Tree school/home communication.**
 * We are beginning to utilize a journal with our portfolio work. Great!

* Fourth and Fifth Grade
= = = Middle School =
 * **Please bring in supplies and your parents'/caretakers email address for Living Tree school/home communication.**
 * **Assignments tracked in journal so far:**
 * **Summer piece**
 * **on going Tech Rules piece**
 * **Healthy Habits week- Linear model response sheet**
 * **Obtaining user id and password for log in to a computer**
 * **Use log in in the tech lab**
 * **Peer review sheet of your neighbor's journal writing for hearly habits week inquiry**
 * **ChooseSeptember folder/links**
 * **Choose October folder/links**
 * **Create and idea box response to our October folder choices**
 * **Make choices and connections with Columbus Day using our October folder, our grade folder and google search/always adding and children**
 * **Compare the tarantula to other spiders- using the inserts for your idea box explain how th trantula is different from other spiders**
 * **We will be able to choose from our grade folder- get your journal and notebook out of your basket, write today's date in your journal, and share in your journal your choices and connections.**

Portfolio and Journal Assignments to date:
 * Please bring in supplies and your parents'/caretakers' email address for Living Tree school/home communication.**

2nd Marking Period

12/2/13 7th and 8th Grade are creating microsoft documents and powerpoint presentations for class assigned research and development. Certain students are creating a bulletin board of vocabulary to date. *The internet is down until we get a switch and 20 internet cables. 12/3/13 7th Grade can use internet because not a large group. We will be able to look into our next common core standard. Computer Technology Computers as __tools for design__, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__, have greatly increased **human productivity**. 12/4/13 Wedenesday 8th Grade has assignments from their teacher until our internet is up and running again throughout the lab. 12/5/13 SWBAT continue with Tuesday's lesson. Ms. Johnson and Ms. Pierre had shared some of the last session with requests and visit so today we will continue the session. We will be able to look into our next common core standard. Computer Technology Computers as __tools for design__, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__, have greatly increased **human productivity**. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is google search a way we can look at terms? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/6/13 Friday <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grade <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">May have a class assignment to finish. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">or may begin <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT look into our next common core standard. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Computer Technology <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Computers as __tools for design__, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__, have greatly increased **human productivity** and knowledge. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is google search a way we can look at terms? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/9/13 Out sick <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/10/13 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Grade <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">touched base with Ms. Wardlow re info processing and Literacy and Social Studies curriculum connections with technology. ( Ms. Pierre has mentioned this) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT design a display of terms for the bulletin board. __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">tools for design __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__ __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">human productivity __ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is creating a design of terms artistic? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">for sharing (generating) and drawing ideas. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/11/13 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grade <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Ashby/Colomer- May have an assignment <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">or <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT design a display of terms for the bulletin board. __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">tools for design __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__ __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">human productivity __ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is creating a design of terms artistic? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/12 Thurs. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Grade Ms. Wardlow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT design a display of terms for the bulletin board. __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">tools for design __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">, __modeling__, __information processing__, __communication__ and __system control__ __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">human productivity __ <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is using a design site helpful in creating our design of terms? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">pbskids.org/designsquad <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Grade Ms. Wardlow at Assembly <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/16/12 Monday <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grade <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT create a glog of the Kwanzaa principles we celebrate at school this week. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why are Kwanzaa principles helpful to us? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/16/13 Tuesday <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Wardlow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT create a glog of the Kwanzaa principles we celebrate at school this week. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why are Kwanzaa principles helpful to us? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/18/13 Wednesday <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grades Ashby/Colomer and Kroenert <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT create a holiday glog. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why are holidays connecting with our Computer Technology terms? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Maybe add...interject <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT use the computer to design, model, process information, and/or communicate about the holiday season. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why does computer technology add to the holiday season? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">12/19/13 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Ms. Wardlow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT create a holiday glog. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why are holidays connecting with our Computer Technology terms? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Holiday 12/23/13-1/1/14 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">1/2/14 8th <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT research for essay contest (in grade folder) for Black History Month, Martin Luther King and others. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why are you choosing your topic for essay writing and black history? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">deadline hand in to Ms. Pierre tomorrow. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">1/4/14 SNOW DAY <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">1/6/4 Monday <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grade/Ashby/Colomer Kroenert did not come down pm. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT stay current with the New Year and teens kids health weekly <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is Kids health weekly email interesting for the New Year? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">2nd- Same as last Thurs. different group <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Tues. 1/7/14 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Grade/Wardlow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT stay current with the New Year and teens kids health weekly <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is Kids health weekly email interesting for the New Year? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">2nd Grade Kelly <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT go to share info I received via email and the New Year from Kidshealthweekly. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why is getting an email fun? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">1/8/13 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">8th Grade Ashby/Colomer and Kroenert <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Moving into common core heading 4 Technological Systems //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Big Idea: //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">New products and systems can be developed to solve problems or to help do things that could not be done without the help of technology. //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Teacher’s Note //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Big ideas should be made explicit to students by writing them on the board and/or reading them aloud. //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT become familiar //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> with systems thinking as it is applied in the natural and human-made world. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why would an igloo's heating be closer to natural than our own? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why would a system think? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">1/9/14 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">7th Grade Wardlow <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Moving into common core heading 4 Technological Systems //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Teacher’s Note //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">: Big ideas should be made explicit to students by writing them on the board and/or reading them aloud. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why would an igloo's heating be closer to natural than our own? <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Why would a system think?
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose points from the following standard:
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Define terms/areas. **
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Then learn about and share by google searching. **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Category- Technology under Ask-A-Tech Teacher
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose which sites would share this info
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose how you would like to show how you can identify them.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose points from the following standard:
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Define terms/areas. **
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Then learn about and share by google searching. **
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Choose __points__ from the following standard:
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Google search Kwanzaa to find info to use for the principles.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Use the graphic organizer- Linear Model to outline what you find.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Google search Kwanzaa to find info about the principles.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Use the graphic organizer- Linear Model or Unit Collage to outline what you find.
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">log in to glogster **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">. (See me if you cannot)
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">practice skills used to create your holiday glog/intractive poster
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">while you google search for the holidays look at how our terms for computer technology are used, shown and shared
 * __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">terms __
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">toools for design
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">modeling
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">information processing
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">communication
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">system control
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">log in to glogster **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">. (See me if you cannot)
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">practice skills used to create your holiday glog/intractive poster
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">while you google search for the holidays look at how our terms for computer technology are used, shown and shared
 * __<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">terms __
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">tools for design
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">modeling
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">information processing
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">communication
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">system control
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Gather information- google, semantic maps, journal
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">in your grade folder- folder New Year 2014 MLK
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">in your grade folder- folder New Year 2014 MLK
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Go to grade folder and New Year 2014 folder.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">in grade folder go to Technology Systems folder and look into systems thinking.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use the vocabulary concept map one to help visualize systems thinking.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">google search systems thinking for vocabulary
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Big Idea: **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">New products and systems can be developed to solve problems or to help do things that could not be done without the help of technology.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">SWBAT become familiar **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;"> with systems thinking as it is applied in the natural and human-made world.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">in grade folder go to Technology Systems folder and look into systems thinking.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use the vocabulary concept map 1 to help visualize systems thinking.
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">google search systems thinking for vocabulary

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= Parent Teacher Conferences in February. = = Please join us! Please see Common Core Technology Standards for MS and Elementary below. =

//<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">New York State P-12 Learning Standards (New York State Education Department, used with permission) //
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">NYS: Math, Science and Technology, NYS: Intermediate, Core Curr: Standard 5 Technology Education ** ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Engineering Design Key Idea: Engineering design is an iterative process involving modeling and optimization used to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints. Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">identify needs and opportunities for technical solutions from an investigation of situations of general or social interest. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">locate and utilize a range of printed, electronic, and human information resources to obtain ideas. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">consider constraints and generate several ideas for alternative solutions, using group and individual ideation techniques (group discussion, brainstorming, forced connections, role play); defer judgment until a number of ideas have been generated; evaluate (critique) ideas; and explain why the chosen solution is optimal. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">develop plans, including drawings with measurements and details of construction, and construct a model of the solution, exhibiting a degree of craftsmanship. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">in a group setting, test their solution against design specifications, present and evaluate results, describe how the solution might have been modified for different or better results, and discuss tradeoffs that might have to be made. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Tools Tools, Resources, and Technological Processes 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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">choose and use resources for a particular purpose based upon an analysis and understanding of their properties, costs, availability, and environmental impact. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">combine manufacturing processes with other technological processes to produce, market, and distribute a product. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">process energy into other forms and information into more meaningful information. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Computer Technology 3. Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">assemble a computer system including keyboard, central processing unit and disc drives, mouse, modem, printer, and monitor. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use a computer system to connect to and access needed information from various Internet sites. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use computer hardware and software to draw and dimension prototypical designs. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use a computer as a modeling tool. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use a computer system to monitor and control external events and/or systems. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Technological Systems 4. Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as products, structures, services, energy, or other systems. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">select appropriate technological systems on the basis of safety, function, cost, ease of operation, and quality of post-purchase support. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">assemble, operate, and explain the operation of simple open- and closed-loop electrical, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic systems. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe how subsystems and system elements (inputs, processes, outputs) interact within systems. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe how system control requires sensing information, processing it, and making changes. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe how the evolution of technology led to the shift in society from an agricultural base to an industrial base to an information base. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">understand the contributions of people of different genders, races, and ethnic groups to technological development. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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). ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Impacts 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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe how outputs of a technological system can be desired, undesired, expected, or unexpected. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe through examples how modern technology reduces manufacturing and construction costs and produces more uniform products. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Management Management of Technology 7. Project management is essential to ensuring that technological endeavors are profitable and that products and systems are of high quality and built safely, on schedule, and within budget. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">manage time and financial resources in a technological project. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">provide examples of products that are well (and poorly) designed and made, describe their positive and negative attributes, and suggest measures that can be implemented to monitor quality during production. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">assume leadership responsibilities within a structured group activity. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">assume leadership responsibilities within a structured group activity. ||

**Check All** //<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">New York State P-12 Learning Standards (New York State Education Department, used with permission) //
 * **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">NYS: Math, Science and Technology, NYS: Elementary, Core Curr: Standard 5 Technology Education ** ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Engineering Design Key Idea: Engineering design is an iterative process involving modeling and optimization used to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints. Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers and develop solutions. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe objects, imaginary or real, that might be modeled or made differently and suggest ways in which the objects can be changed, fixed, or improved. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">investigate prior solutions and ideas from books, magazines, family, friends, neighbors, and community members. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">generate ideas for possible solutions, individually and through group activity; apply age-appropriate mathematics and science skills; evaluate the ideas and determine the best solution; and explain reasons for the choices. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">plan and build, under supervision, a model of the solution using familiar materials, processes, and hand tools. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">discuss how best to test the solution; perform the test under teacher supervision; record and portray results through numerical and graphic means; discuss orally why things worked or didn't work; and summarize results in writing, suggesting ways to make the solution better. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Tools Tools, Resources, and Technological Processes 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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">explore, use, and process a variety of materials and energy sources to design and construct things. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">understand the importance of safety, cost, ease of use, and availability in selecting tools and resources for a specific purpose. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">develop basic skill in the use of hand tools. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use simple manufacturing processes (e.g., assembly, multiple stages of production, quality control) to produce a product. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use appropriate graphic and electronic tools and techniques to process information. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Computer Technology 3. Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">identify and describe the function of the major components of a computer system. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">use the computer as a tool for generating and drawing ideas. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">control computerized devices and systems through programming. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">model and simulate the design of a complex environment by giving direct commands. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Technological Systems 4. Technological systems are designed to achieve specific results and produce outputs, such as products, structures, services, energy, or other systems. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">identify familiar examples of technological systems that are used to satisfy human needs and wants, and select them on the basis of safety, cost, and function. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">assemble and operate simple technological systems, including those with interconnecting mechanisms to achieve different kinds of movement. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">understand that larger systems are made up of smaller component subsystems. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">identify technological developments that have significantly accelerated human progress. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Impacts 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. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">describe how technology can have positive and negative effects on the environment and on the way people live and work. ||
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Management Management of Technology 7. Project management is essential to ensuring that technological endeavors are profitable and that products and systems are of high quality and built safely, on schedule, and within budget. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">participate in small group projects and in structured group tasks requiring planning, financing, production, quality control, and follow-up. ||
 * || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">speculate on and model possible technological solutions that can improve the safety and quality of the school or community environment. ||