Technology is a ten-week course offered as part of our Art, Health, and Family Consumer Sciences wheel.
In sixth grade Technology, students will learn to :
- examine the historical aspects of human ingenuity and how human creativity has satisfied our needs and desires.
- use Microsoft PowerPoint to develop a slide presentation for a report that explores human ingenuity.
- understand the impact of human ingenuity with respect to environmental issues.
- identify and understand the impact of technology on society.
- become familiar with basic hand and machine tools through the manufacture of a knock-hockey board.
In seventh grade Technology, students will learn to :
- explore and experience how people solve technological problems by using the design cycle as a problem-solving system.
- use hands-on applications in math science.
- understand the role of the computer in designing products through the use of SolidWorks, a computer aided design (CAD) program.
- explore and understand the importance of alternate energy sources.
- understand the structure, function, components, and control of systems.
- use prototypes to better understand the design and manufacturing cycle.
In eighth grade Technology, students will learn to:- explore and experience how people solve more complex technological problems by using the design cycle.
- become aware of the design process by keeping track of their design progression in a process journal.
- use computers to design and implement practical solutions to problems.
- work in groups to solve and present solutions to problems.
- use probability techniques to predict the path of an object through a maze designed by students.