This document outlines the technology education curriculum for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. In 6th grade, students will explore career decisions by understanding their interests, personality, and skills. They will also learn about the world of work and job search techniques. In 7th grade, the focus is on invention and innovation, with key projects including designing new products and examining societal impacts. The 8th grade standards cover technological systems, how they work, issues they create, and their impacts on society. The major project is on the Morse code telephone.

1. Technology Education
Mr. Graff

2. 6th Grade Exploring Career Decisions
A WHO AM I and WHAT CAN I BECOME?
ES Understand interests, attitudes, values, personality, learning styles, and skills.
Comp. 1 Understand interests, attitudes, and values.
Comp. 2 Understand personality and learning styles.
Comp. 3 Understand personal and transferable skills.
ES Understand how interests, values, and personality influence career choices.
Comp. 1 Understand how interests and values influence career choices.
Comp. 2 Understand how personality influences career choices.
B HOW DO I GET THERE?
ES Understand the world of work and skills needed for employment success.
Comp. 1 Understand the world of work and how the world of work changes.
Comp. 2 Understand skills needed for employment success.
ES Understand job search techniques.
Comp. 1 Understand where to seek employment.
Comp. 2 Understand how to apply, interview, and make a career plan for employment.

3. 7th Grade Technology Design and Innovation
Essential Standards/Objectives/Key Projects
ES Introduction to Invention and Innovation (Safety in a Lab Setting is Integrated)
Obj 4.01.01
Describe new products and systems that have been developed to solve problems. Identify new products and systems that cannot be done
without the help of technology.
Obj 4.01.02 Explain that the development of technology is a human activity and is the result individual or collective needs and the ability to be creative.
Obj. 4.01.03 Explain how technology is closely linked to creativity. Discuss how creativity has resulted in innovations to technology.
Obj. 4.01.04 Identify corporations that have created a demand for a product through marketing and advertising.
Obj. 4.01.05
Differentiate between trade-offs in the decision making process. Formulate careful compromises when deciding which trade-offs are
acceptable.
Obj. 4.01.06
Design a product, system or environment for a specific setting. Examine unrelated settings where their product, system or environment may be
applied.
Obj. 4.01.07
Identify recent innovations to products or systems that have led to changes in society. Describe inventions or innovations that changed society
and created new needs and wants.
Obj. 4.01.08 Select a technological device and analyze the social and cultural priorities and values reflected by that device.
Obj. 4.01.09 Examine societal expectations that have boosted the acceptance and use of a product or system.
Obj. 4.01.10 Examine the slow, methodical processes of tests and refinements as they relate to the evolution of inventions and innovations.
Obj. 4.01.11 Design a technological improvement for a device that has a highly specialized function.
Obj. 4.01.12 Identify an invention or innovation that was developed without the knowledge of science.
Major
Project Jelly Bean Project
ES Invention and Innovation of the Designed World
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Describe new products and systems that have been developed to solve problems. Identify new products and systems that cannot be done
without the help of technology.

4. 8th Grade Technological Systems
Essential Standards/Objectives/Key Projects
ES Technological Systems: How They Work (Safety in a lab setting is Integrated)
Obj. 1.01.01 Design a product or system to solve a problem or help to do things that could not be done without the help of technology.
Obj. 1.01.02 Interpret input, processes, output and feedback as related to a technological system.
Obj. 1.01.03 Choose a technological system, and then report the relationship of its parts.
Obj. 1.01.04
Defend the meaning of an open-loop system as having no feedback and requiring human intervention and a closed-loop system that uses
feedback.
Obj. 1.01.05 Identify requirements that are placed on the development of a system.
Obj. 1.01.06
iIlustrate how the design and construction of structures for service or convenience have evolved from the development of techniques for
measurement, controlling systems, and the understanding of spatial relationships.
Obj. 1.01.07
Differentiate invention as a process of turning ideas and imagination into devices and systems. Differentiate innovation as the process of
modifying an existing product or system to improve it.
Major
Project Morse Code-Telephone
ES Technological Systems: Issues and Impacts
Obj. 2.01.01 Illustrate an example of how marketing and advertising can create demand of a product.
Obj. 2.01.02 Evaluate the use of different products and systems then compare and contrast the desirable and undesirable consequences.
Obj. 2.01.03 Explain that the management of waste produced by technological systems is an important societal issue.
Obj. 2.01.04
Design a technology that can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters or to break down waste from the use of various products or
systems.
Obj. 2.01.05 Explain how decisions to develop and use technologies can put environmental and economic concerns in competition with each other.
Obj. 2.01.06 Describe instances where social and cultural priorities are reflected in technological devices.
Major