Introduction to Technology 8
COURSE TITLE: Introduction to Technology 8
COURSE LENGTH: Semester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Technology Education is a New York State Education Department required course for 8th grade students. The course is designed to address aspects of both the visual arts and technology standards focusing on applied activities. Students work with tools, machines, and devices used in the home and workplace, integrating critical thinking and creative problem solving skills.
The eighth grade Introduction to Technology course addresses additional technological concepts, focusing on technical processes, methods used to control them, career opportunities, and other personal and societal implications of technology. Applications of the computer are related to information processing, process control, and communication that are integrated with student activities.
This one semester course concentrates on drawing, design, research and critical analysis, historical reference and the development of skills. The importance of accurate technical drawings and careful design are stressed.
Students are exposed to the fields of manufacturing and engineering as possible careers. Students learn how to integrate math and science in planning and evaluating their projects.
PROJECT AND ACTIVITIES:
· Design and manufacture a pen and pencil holder using a multitude of carefully sequenced operations to make a commercial-quality product.
· Design and build an aerodynamic CO2-powered vehicle and then test designs against others for aerodynamic quality as well as for speed, which they calculate using a three-step process.
· Design, construct, and fly a model solid-fuel rocket. Students track the flight of the rocket and use a formula to calculate maximum altitude.
· Create orthographic and isometric drawings.
· Construct snapper puzzle, flowerpot hanger, stirrer/HMG construction, name cutout, holiday/gift picture frames.
· Work on Paper Bridge and Tower Construction Challenge.
CORE MATERIALS UTILIZED:
Understanding Technology Goodheart-Willcox, 1998
PREREQUISITE: Technology 7
ASSESSMENT: None
COURSE LENGTH: Semester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Technology Education is a New York State Education Department required course for 8th grade students. The course is designed to address aspects of both the visual arts and technology standards focusing on applied activities. Students work with tools, machines, and devices used in the home and workplace, integrating critical thinking and creative problem solving skills.
The eighth grade Introduction to Technology course addresses additional technological concepts, focusing on technical processes, methods used to control them, career opportunities, and other personal and societal implications of technology. Applications of the computer are related to information processing, process control, and communication that are integrated with student activities.
This one semester course concentrates on drawing, design, research and critical analysis, historical reference and the development of skills. The importance of accurate technical drawings and careful design are stressed.
Students are exposed to the fields of manufacturing and engineering as possible careers. Students learn how to integrate math and science in planning and evaluating their projects.
PROJECT AND ACTIVITIES:
· Design and manufacture a pen and pencil holder using a multitude of carefully sequenced operations to make a commercial-quality product.
· Design and build an aerodynamic CO2-powered vehicle and then test designs against others for aerodynamic quality as well as for speed, which they calculate using a three-step process.
· Design, construct, and fly a model solid-fuel rocket. Students track the flight of the rocket and use a formula to calculate maximum altitude.
· Create orthographic and isometric drawings.
· Construct snapper puzzle, flowerpot hanger, stirrer/HMG construction, name cutout, holiday/gift picture frames.
· Work on Paper Bridge and Tower Construction Challenge.
CORE MATERIALS UTILIZED:
Understanding Technology Goodheart-Willcox, 1998
PREREQUISITE: Technology 7
ASSESSMENT: None
