Technology Education
6th Grade – Engineering by Design
Curriculum based on International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA)
Week One - Exploring Technology - What is Technology? – Recognizing technology in our daily lives, it’s impact on our life and our encounters with automation.
Week Two - Design and Engineering - Learning about the design process by designing a new kind of product for students or for a business.
Week Three and Four – Spatial Relations - Looking at geometric shapes with Google Sketch software, studying multiview drawings and applying tangram design.
Week Five - Human Exploration (NASA Living in Space) - Learning to see what it takes to live in space and understanding, as citizens, about the NASA program.
7th Grade – Invention and innovation
Curriculum based on International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA)
Week One- Introduction to the World of Invention - What is an invention? What is innovation? What is exponential change? How does change act upon the world? Students cover a quick history of American invention success stories and have an opportunity to design an invention while following the rules of the Rubber Band Contest 2011. http://rubberbandcontest.org/
Week Two - Core Concepts of Technology - Students study and learn about living with different kinds of technologies in a technological world.
Week Two, Three and Four - Problem solving - Students examine the steps the Problem Solving process: design, troubleshooting, research and development and experimentation. Students then focus most closely on the design step of the problem solving process when they construct an electronic bug. Once the electronic bug is produced students use it to conduct electronic lab activities.
Week Five – Gadgets - What are Gadgets? Students identify gadgets versus non gadgets. They then study about gadgets and patents. Students will design their very own gadget on Word 2010.
8th Grade - Technological Systems
Week One – Understanding Systems - Systems in a technological world are defined and the nine different kinds of systems are mapped.
Week One – Bridges - Students are introduced to the bridge as a structural system and explore what a bridge means in society.
Week Two – Bridge design - Students apply, research and test bridge design with ModelSmart computer software. Students sketch the final design of a bridge, then build, test and work on improvements to their design.
Week Three, Four, Five, Six – Model Room Design - Hofstra 8th grade National Research Math/Tech Model Room program.
Students will need cardboard and colored construction paper.