SECTION 210:15-3-197. Technology engineering for grades 6 - 10


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  • (a)   Standard. The student will define the characteristics and scope of technology and engineering in our world today.
    (1)   Examine the evolution, application and significance of modern technology engineering and its impact on our lives in the twenty-first century.
    (2)   Identify the effects and reasons for commercialization of technology.
    (b)   Standard. The student will identify the core concepts of technology systems, resources and processes including optimization and trade-off concepts.
    (c)   Standard. The student will identify and describe the importance of technology and the relationships between and among technology and other fields.
    (1)   Recognize and describe technology transfer from one product to another.
    (2)   Recognize and describe inventions and innovations shared across new technologies.
    (d)   Standard. The student will identify and differentiate the cultural, social, economic and political effects of technology and engineering.
    (1)   Determine the impact and consequences of technology.
    (2)   Identify and describe the rapid or gradual changes in technology and the related effects.
    (e)   Standard. The student will recognize the effects of technology and engineering on the environment.
    (1)   Describe technologies used to repair damage in the environment.
    (2)   Examine ways to reduce resource use through technology engineering concepts.
    (3)   Identify practices available for monitoring the environment to provide feedback for decisions.
    (f)   Standard. The student will determine the connection between technological demands, values and interests of society and the impact of these on the environment.
    (g)   Standard. The student will identify the history and evolution of technology engineering techniques, measurements and resources.
    (h)   Standard. The student will apply the technology engineering design process to create useful products and systems.
    (1)   Identify criteria required to determine an effective technology engineering design process.
    (2)   Apply reasoning, problem solving, imagining, creating and constructing design and technology tools.
    (i)   Standard. The student will describe technological advances that enhance science and mathematics and describe how science and mathematics advance technology and engineering.
    (j)   Standard. The student will apply problem-solving and critical thinking techniques for troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation and experimentation and implement these strategies as a multidisciplinary approach.
    (k)   Standard. The student will apply creativity in developing technology products and systems.
    (1)   A model to explain a solution to a problem.
    (2)   Test and evaluate a design for improvement.
    (3)   Identify quality controls necessary in a technology product or system process.
    (l)   Standard. The student will apply safe and proper use of tools, machines, materials, processes and technical concepts.
    (m)   Standard. The student will assess the impact of technology engineering on products and systems.
    (1)   Design and use instruments to collect data for a product.
    (2)   Use collected data to find trends and assist in technological development.
    (3)   Interpret and evaluate accuracy of information to determine its usefulness.
    (4)   Synthesize data to draw conclusions regarding the effects of technology and engineering.
    (5)   Design forecasting techniques to evaluate results of altering natural resources.
    (n)   Standard. The student will identify and describe advances and innovation in the career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation Distribution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM).
    (o)   Standard. The student will identify and describe the career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation Distribution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) principles necessary to create products and processes.
    (p)   Standard. The student will identify and define how the career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation Distribution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) apply to various occupational clusters.
    (q)   Standard. The student will identify how technology and engineering systems are affected by career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation Distribution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM).
    (1)   Apply the career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transporation Distribution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) systems and subsystems to a model.
    (2)   Recognize and define the purpose and uses for information skills as it relates to the career clusters with an emphasis in Arts/AV, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing, Transportation Distribsution and Logistics, and Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM).
    (r)   Standard. The student will develop leadership, positive self-concepts, and individual potential in a technological society.
    (s)   Standard. The student will explore the organization and management systems of business and industry.
    (t)   Standard. The student will explore career opportunities to determine occupational and educational choices.
    (1)   Examine opportunities related to specific occupations (e.g. career search software, field trips, guest speakers and hands-on activities dealing with lasers, medical, technology, fiber-optics, robotics, biotechnology, computer-aided drafting, electronics, engineering, computer literacy, microwave systems, and other technology systems.)
    (2)   Examine educational opportunities related to future careers related to career clusters (e.g. additional career technology classes at the secondary level in the comprehensive high school and area career technology centers, junior or four-year universities, postsecondary technical institutes, five- and six-year universities, military training, private sector training, and others.)
[Source: Added at 20 Ok Reg 159, eff 10-10-02 (emergency); Added at 20 Ok Reg 821, eff 5-15-03; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2956, eff 7-2-09 (emergency); Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1380, eff 6-11-10]