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Arizona
Standards
Technology
Standards
(Adopted 3/24/97)
Standard
4
Students understand
the interrelationships of knowledge and how they are used to solve
technology problems in school, the workplace and society.
Students know
and are able to do the following:
READINESS
(Kindergarten)
- Identify and
categorize businesses in the local community
- Plan the physical
organization of a classroom
- Identify careers
that use science and technology
FOUNDATIONS
(Grades 1 - 3)
- Produce a
simple product to solve a problem
- Organize the
class seating, responsibilities and/or learning environment
for a specific purpose
- Explore how
social and economic forces (e.g., air pollution, auto emissions)
influence the uses of technology (e.g., communication satellites,
instant access to world news events) and the determination of
which technologies will be undertaken, paid attention to, invested
in and used
- Describe careers
that use science and technology
ESSENTIALS
(Grades 4 - 8)
- Describe the
common forms of business ownerships
- Identify careers
in current technologies
- Understand
the acquisition, processing, and use of materials and energy,
and their relationship to both 1) the Industrial Revolution
and 2) the current revolution in manufacturing based on the
use of computers
- Identify technology
(e.g., telescopes, spectroscopes, spacecraft, life support systems)
needed to explore space
- Invent a new
product by changing or altering an existing product
- Determine
a need for a product
- Gather product
information (e.g., food value, operating instructions, safety
rules, uses, limitations) through research and brainstorming
- Make detailed
sketches or models of a product
- Assemble and
present a product (e.g., manipulatives/model kits, structures,
creative structures using basic materials)
- Describe the
marketing process (e.g., public interest/demand, promotion,
appeal/attention)
PROFICIENCY
(Grades 9 - 12)
- Create a business
or simulation (e.g., develop a marketing plan; identify the
role of entrepreneurs, owners, managers and workers; maintain
personnel, financial and sales records) and specify how and
what technology will be used to improve productivity
- Explain the
use of technology in occupations and identify careers in current
and emerging technologies
- Demonstrate
the various functions and purposes of technological equipment
used for making products or providing services (e.g., vehicle
designs, tools, structures, creative inventions, time-saving
devices)
- Demonstrate
the interrelationship between science and technology (e.g.,
building a bridge, designing a better running shoe)
DISTINCTION
(Honors)
- Demonstrate
the interrelationship between technology and medicine (e.g.,
mechanical, chemical, electronic, biological, and genetic materials
and techniques; their use in enhancing the functions of the
body; their role in the detection, diagnosis, monitoring and
treatment of disease; and the ethical and economic issues raised
by their use)
- Design a technology
solution for a complex problem (e.g., in the arts [theater productions],
in communications [school newspaper, yearbook], and/or in business
[production, sales])
- Create a web
showing relationships among a given type of technology and other
elements of society (e.g., water supply, food processing and
distribution)
- Apply knowledge
and understanding of chemical and physical interactions to explain
present and anticipated technologies (e.g., lasers, ultrasound,
superconductive materials, photocopy machines)
- Explore the
scientific and technological aspects of contemporary problems
(e.g., issues related to nutrition, air quality, natural resources)
- Develop a
new product for production (i.e., conduct a market feasibility
study, select the appropriate form of ownership for the enterprise,
develop a financial and managerial structure, design and engineer
the product, design and engineer the production system, develop
a marketing plan for the product, develop the roll-out schedule)
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