STEM Technologies I

  • 1.

    Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and following protocols for fire and electrical safety.S1.FS.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.S1.FS.2

  • 3.

    Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.S1.FS.3

  • 4.

    Demonstrate digital literacy by using digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.S1.FS.4

  • 5.

    Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.S1.FS.5

  • 1.

    Describe the development of technology as a human activity that is the result of creatively meeting individual or collective needs.S1.1

  • 2.

    Explain the close link between technology and creativity and how it results in innovation.S1.2

  • 3.

    Describe technological systems, including input, processes, output, and feedback.S1.3

  • 4.

    Explain how technological systems can be connected to one another.S1.4

  • 5.

    Identify the difference between open loop and closed loop systems.S1.5

  • 6.

    Identify positive and negative ways the use of technology affects humans.S1.6

  • 7.

    Investigate the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issue.S1.7

  • 8.

    Describe how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters and to break down waste from various products and systems.S1.8

  • 9.

    Describe the development of a technology from the demands, values, and interests of employers.S1.9

  • 10.

    Identify inventions and innovations that have evolved through slow and methodical processes of testing and refinement.S1.10

  • 11.

    Utilize the design process to produce products and systems.S1.11

  • 12.

    Identify the steps of an engineering design process.S1.12

  • 13.

    Identify criteria and constraints in a design.S1.13

  • 14.

    Describe how the design process is used to develop solutions for a problem.S1.14

  • 15.

    Describe the importance of documentation and how it is used to communicate ideas.S1.15

  • 16.

    Model designs to transform ideas into practical solutions.S1.16

  • 17.

    Obtain, evaluate, and share information to support the assertion that there is no perfect design.S1.17

  • 18.

    Practice brainstorming as a group problem-solving design process in which each person in the group presents ideas in an open forum.S1.18

  • 19.

    Identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations of the design solution.S1.19

  • 20.

    Describe the permanence of digital data and the importance of managing one's digital identity and reputation.S1.20

  • 21.

    Engage in positive, safe, legal, and ethical behaviors when using technology, including during social interactions online and when using networked devices.S1.21

  • 22.

    Identify research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual and/or creative pursuits.S1.22

  • 23.

    Identify information from digital resources, using a variety of tools and methods to create a collection of artifacts that demonstrates meaningful connections or conclusions.S1.23

  • 24.

    Identify real-world issues, develop ideas, and pursue solutions to address the issues.S1.24

STEM Technologies II

  • 1.

    Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and following protocols for fire and electrical safety.S2.FS.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.S2.FS.2

  • 3.

    Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.S2.FS.3

  • 4.

    Demonstrate digital literacy by using digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.S2.FS.4

  • 5.

    Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.S2.FS.5

  • 1.

    Investigate how technological systems can be connected to one another.S2.1

  • 2.

    Explore different technologies that involve different sets of processes.S2.2

  • 3.

    Gather and present information about ways corporations may create demand for a product by bringing it onto the market and advertising it.S2.3

  • 4.

    Differentiate between positive and negative effects of technology usage on human beings, including their safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes about technology's development and use.S2.4

  • 5.

    Analyze the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issue.S2.5

  • 6.

    Research and communicate how technologies can be used to repair damage caused by natural disasters and to break down waste from the use of various products and systems.S2.6

  • 7.

    Identify ethical issues associated with the development and use of technology.S2.7

  • 8.

    Describe how social and cultural priorities and values are reflected in technological devices.S2.8

  • 9.

    Explain how meeting societal expectations can be a driving force behind the acceptance and use of products and systems.S2.9

  • 10.

    Design a plan to produce products and systems.S2.10

  • 11.

    Create criteria and constraints in a design.S2.11

  • 12.

    Use the design process to develop solutions for a problem.S2.12

  • 13.

    Employ brainstorming in a group problem-solving setting where each person presents design process related ideas in an open forum as part of the design process.S2.13

  • 14.

    Model two-dimensional and three-dimensional solutions of a design.S2.14

  • 15.

    Test and modify designs to transform ideas into practical solutions.S2.15

  • 16.

    Accurately identify different resources used in projects.S2.16

  • 17.

    Make a product or system to solve a problem and document the solution.S2.17

  • 18.

    Create and maintain a digital identity and reputation, demonstrating an awareness of the permanence of one's actions in the digital world.S2.18

  • 19.

    Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.S2.19

  • 20.

    Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security.S2.20

  • 21.

    Create strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.S2.21

  • 22.

    Generate ideas about real-world issues and problems and pursue answers and solutions to them.S2.22

STEM Technologies III

  • 1.

    Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and following protocols for fire and electrical safety.S3.FS.1

  • 2.

    Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.S3.FS.2

  • 3.

    Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.S3.FS.3

  • 4.

    Demonstrate digital literacy by using digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically.S3.FS.4

  • 5.

    Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.S3.FS.5

  • 1.

    Design a technological system that can be connected to another system.S3.1

  • 2.

    Design a variety of technologies that involve different sets of processes.S3.2

  • 3.

    Demonstrate how every part of a system relates to another.S3.3

  • 4.

    Analyze malfunctions of any part of a system that may affect the system's function and quality.S3.4

  • 5.

    Compare and contrast trade-offs as a decision process and describe the need for careful compromises among competing factors.S3.5

  • 6.

    Perform basic maintenance on systems within the program.S3.6

  • 7.

    Analyze the ways, both positive and negative, that the use of technology affects humans, including their safety, comfort, choices, and attitudes about technology's development and use.S3.7

  • 8.

    Critique the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issue.S3.8

  • 9.

    Design a solution to alleviate and/or repair the damage caused by various disasters.S3.9

  • 10.

    Make decisions about the development and use of technologies that put environmental and economic concerns in direct competition with one another.S3.10

  • 11.

    Develop a plan to produce products and systems.S3.11

  • 12.

    Critique criteria, constraints, and tradeoffs in a design.S3.12

  • 13.

    Synthesize elements of the design process to develop solutions for a problem.S3.13

  • 14.

    Analyze results of solutions to problems using the steps in the design process.S3.14

  • 15.

    Design two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations of a design solution.S3.15

  • 16.

    Evaluate designs to transform ideas into practical solutions.S3.16

  • 17.

    Critique a product or system and document the evaluation.S3.17

  • 18.

    Apply a design process to solve problems in and beyond the classroom.S3.18

  • 19.

    Test, evaluate, and modify a design in relation to criteria and constraints.S3.19

  • 20.

    Cultivate a digital identity and reputation, demonstrating an awareness of the permanence of one's actions in the digital world.S3.20

  • 21.

    Manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security, demonstrating awareness of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.S3.21

  • 22.

    Employ research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.S3.22

  • 23.

    Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information, media, data, or other resources.S3.23

  • 24.

    Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create a collection of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.S3.24

  • 25.

    Develop solutions to real-world issues by analyzing ideas and solutions.S3.25

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What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8
When were these standards adopted?
2020

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