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A. Technology and Science
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- Throughout all of history, people everywhere have invented and used tools.
- In earlier times, the accumulated information and techniques of each generation of workers were taught on the job directly to the next generation of workers. Today, the knowledge base for technology can be found as well in libraries of print and electronic resources and is often taught in the classroom.
- Measuring instruments can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events and for designing and constructing things that will work properly.
- Technology extends the ability of people to change the world: to cut, shape, or put together materials; to move things from one place to another; and to reach farther with their hands, voices, senses, and minds.
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B. Design and Systems
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- There is no perfect design.
- Even a good design may fail.
- The solution to one problem may create other problems.
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C. Issues in Technology
By the end of 5th grade, students should know that:
- Technology has been part of life on the earth since the advent of the human species.
- Any invention is likely to lead to other inventions.
- Transportation, communications, nutrition, sanitation, health care, entertainment, and other technologies give large numbers of people today the goods and services that once were luxuries enjoyed only by the wealthy.
- Scientific laws, engineering principles, properties of materials, and construction techniques must be taken into account in designing engineering solutions to problems.
- Technologies often have drawbacks as well as benefits.
- Because of their ability to invent tools and processes, people have an enormous effect on the lives of other living things.
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