Grade 7 CTE Connecticut Standards

Design and Development

Design and Development

Explore the major enterprises of the designed world.

Evaluate the major enterprises of the designed world, in the fields of communications, construction, manufacturing and transportation.

Incorporate science concepts and mathematic processes applied through the use of technology.

The positive and negative aspects of a design.

Plan multiple design solutions to solve a problem.

Explain why a design process leads to useful products and processes.

Critique designs and products created to solve a problem.

Explain that requirements for a design are made up of criteria and constraints.

Explore the engineering design.

Demonstrate that evaluating, modeling, modifying and testing can be used to transform ideas into practical solutions.

Gather information to gain background knowledge related to a problem.

Construct a timeline to solve a problem.

Select and use appropriate, materials, tools and machines.

Construct tables, charts, databases, spreadsheets, and graphs to display data.

Relate the design process beyond the classroom.

Create various graphic representations or drawing of the design solution.

Evaluate the effectiveness of a model and recommend necessary changes.

Explore the four human productive areas of technology: communications, construction, manufacturing, transportation and other related fields.

Explain that information and communication systems allow information to be transferred from human to human, human to machine, and machine to human.

Explain that communication systems are made up of a source, encoder, transmitter, receiver, decoder, and destination.

Explain that the use of symbols, measurements, and drawings promotes clear communication by providing a common language to express ideas.

Identify and describe types of land, water air and space transportation systems.

Investigate and describe the functioning of structural, propulsion, suspension, and guidance control vehicular subsystems.

Diagram and demonstrate the processes used for operating an efficient transportation system.

Explain how secondary manufacturing processes are used to change the form of materials.

Explain that manufactured goods are classified as durable and non-durable.

Explain the primary manufacturing processes used to extract material.

Identify the factors used to select the designs for structures based on building laws and codes, style, convenience, cost climate, and function.

Explain that buildings contain a variety of subsystems.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Apply data and measurements to solve a problem.

Construct charts/tables/graphs from functions and data.

Analyze data when interpreting operational documents.

Apply data and measurements to solve a problem.

Demonstrate science knowledge and skills required to pursue the full range of post-secondary and career education opportunities.

Evaluate scientific constructs including: conclusions, conflicting data, controls, data, inferences, limitations, questions, sources of errors, and variables.

Apply scientific methods in qualitative and quantitative analysis, data gathering, direct and indirect observation, predictions, and problem identification.

Employ critical thinking skills independently and in teams to solve problems and make decisions (e.g., analyze, synthesize and evaluate).

Identify common tasks that require employees to use problem-solving skills.

Analyze elements of a problem to develop creative solutions.

Describe the value of using problem-solving and critical thinking skills to improve a situation or process.

Create ideas, proposals, and solutions to problems.

Evaluate ideas, proposals, and solutions to problems.

Use structured problem-solving methods when developing proposals and solutions.

Generate new and creative ideas to solve problems by brainstorming possible solutions.

Critically analyze information to determine value to the problem-solving task.

Guide individuals through the process of recognizing concerns and making informed decisions.

Identify alternatives using a variety of problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Evaluate alternatives using a variety of problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Implement personal and jobsite safety rules and regulations to maintain safe and healthful working conditions and environments.

Assess workplace conditions with regard to safety and health.

Align safety issues with appropriate safety standards to ensure a safe workplace/jobsite.

Identify safety hazards common to workplaces.

Identify safety hazards common to workplaces.Identify safety precautions to maintain a safe worksite.

Select appropriate personal protective equipment as needed for a safe workplace/jobsite.

Inspect personal protective equipment commonly used for selected career choice.

Use personal protective equipment according to manufacturer rules and regulations.

Employ a safety hierarchy and communication system within the workplace/jobsite.

Implement safety precautions to maintain a safe worksite.

Employ leadership skills to accomplish organizational goals and objectives.

Exhibit traits such as empowerment, risk, communication, focusing on results, decision-making, problem solution, and investment in individuals when leading a group in solving a problem.

Exhibit traits such as compassion, service, listening, coaching, developing others, team development, and when acting as a manager of others in the workplace. Understanding and appreciating others

Exhibit traits such as enthusiasm, creativity, conviction, mission, courage, concept, focus, principle-centered living, and change when interacting with concept, focus, principle-centered living, and change when interacting with others in general.

Consider issues related to self, team, community, diversity, environment, and global awareness when leading others.

Exhibit traits such as innovation, intuition, adaptation, life-long learning and coachable to develop leadership potential over time.

Analyze leadership in relation to trust, positive attitude, integrity, and willingness to accept key responsibilities in a work situation.

Describe observations of outstanding leaders using effective management styles.

Participate in civic and community leadership and teamwork opportunities to enhance skills.

Identify and demonstrate positive work behaviors and personal qualities needed to be employable.

Demonstrate self-discipline, self-worth, positive attitude, and integrity in a work situation.

Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to learn new knowledge and skills.

Exhibit commitment to the organization.

Identify how work varies with regard to site, from indoor confined spaces to outdoor areas, including aerial space and a variety of climatic and physical conditions.

Apply communication strategies when adapting to a culturally diverse environment.

Manage resources in relation to the position (i.e. budget, supplies, computer, etc.).

Identify positive work-qualities typically desired in each career.

Manage work roles and responsibilities to balance them with other life roles and responsibilities.

Demonstrate skills related to seeking and applying for employment to find and obtain a desired job.

Use multiple resources to locate job opportunities.

Prepare a résumé.

Prepare a letter of application.

Complete an employment application.

Interview for employment.

List the standards and qualifications that must be met in order to enter a given industry.

Employ critical thinking and decision-making skills to exhibit qualifications to a potential employer.

Impact of Technology

Impact of Technology

Develop abilities to assess the impacts of products and systems.

Design and use instruments to gather data.

Identify trends and monitor potential consequences of technological development.

Interpret and evaluate the accuracy of the information obtained and determine if it is useful.

Determine if the human use of a product or system creates positive or negative results.

Use data collected to analyze and interpret trends in order to identify the positive or negative effects of technology.

Interpret and evaluate the accuracy of the information obtained and determine if it is useful.

Analyze important ideas and messages in informational text to determine the impact of a technology product or system.

Recognize and explain the cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology.

Assess the impact of technology as it affects humans.

Examine how technology use changes our environment.

Describe how the use of technology poses ethical problems.

Describe achievements of people from different backgrounds and abilities who have made various contributions to technology and science.

Evaluate the historical impact of various technological and scientific contributions.

Cite instances where technology has caused cultural, social, economic, and political changes.

Explain the effects of technology on the environment.

Assess the impact of the management of technological waste on society.

Investigate how the decision to use technology puts environmental and economic concerns in direct competition with each other.

Recognize and explain that technological changes and advances have consequences for the immediate environment.

Evaluate local, regional or global issues surrounding technology.

Defend how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters.

Describe how technologies can be used to break down wastes that result from the use of various products and systems.

Nature of Technology

Nature of Technology

Recognize the nature, characteristics and scope of technology.

Explain that 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.

Explain that technology is closely aligned to creativity, which has resulted in innovation.

Describe how new technologies (products and systems) are developed to solve problems.

Recognize and explain that creativity is the basis for the development of products and systems.

Explain that technology is a powerful force that improves human productivity.

Recognize and explain that technology is a process for transforming raw materials into useful goods and services.

Explain that technology is evident in every culture, regardless of its level of sophistication or stage of development.

Recognize and explain that technology involves inventing new things and modifying the old ones to make them more efficient.

Describe technology as a process for transforming raw materials into useful goods and services.

Explain that 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.

Explain that technology is closely linked to creativity, which has resulted in innovation.

Explain that technological innovation is driven by the profit motive.

Explain that technology creates new economic opportunities and social benefits and, at the same time, produces new social problems.

Describe how and why people use technology to modify their natural environment and the impact of those modifications.

Explain that technology incorporates human knowledge into physical hardware that will eventually respond to some human need or desire.

Explain that 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.

Explain that corporations can often create demand for a product by bringing it onto the market and advertising it.

Demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts of technology.

Explain a technological system by identifying its parts (inputs, processes, output and feedback)

Differentiate between the systems found in nature vs. human made technological systems.

Show evidence of how parts relate to each other through systems thinking.

Differentiate between an open and closed system.

Explain the benefits and consequences of and technological innovation.

Explain that a trade-off is a decision process recognizing the need for careful compromises among competing factors.

Define the parameters of a product.

Define the processes used to complete a system.

Evaluate the importance of maintenance on a system ensure proper functioning, extending life and upgrading capability.

Define and explain the relationships among technologies and the connections between technology and other fields of study.

Illustrate how technology systems often interact with each other.

Demonstrate how technological systems are combined to create more complex systems.

Implement knowledge from other fields of study and show effect on the development of technological products and systems.

Describe how technological ideas are sometimes protected through the process of patenting.