Title: Introduction to Technology and Engineering (21051-6)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
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Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Introducing Technology
  Define technology.
  Identify historical examples of technology.
  Identify how technologies have emerged through the use of engineering.
  (Optional) Research careers and the technologies used in them.
Investigating the Effects of Technology
  Describe how society affects technology and technology affects society.
  (Optional) Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context and future need.
  (Optional) Identify emerging technologies.
  Predict future technological changes.
Examining Resources of Technology
  Identify resources used in technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Identify the six simple machines that make mechanical technology work.
  (Optional) Differentiate between types of materials.
  (Optional) Select materials based on their properties when designing a technology.
  Demonstrate the safe use of a minimum of three tools and/or pieces of equipment as part of the design process.
  Explain the ethical and moral use of technologies.
  Demonstrate types of measuring.
  Create sketches and drawings.
Designing Solutions
  Describe the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) engineering design process.
  Demonstrate the use of an engineering design process.
Using the Engineering Design Process
  Define the goal of a challenge.
  Design a device using criteria and constraints.
  Evaluate viable solutions.
  Select a solution.
  Plan the model or prototype.
  Produce a model or prototype.
  Assess the design.
  Describe how the solution could be improved.
  Communicate the results.
  Use the engineering design process as part of a team.
Examining Systems
  (Optional) Illustrate how processes change inputs to outputs in any system.
  (Optional) Identify the parts of a system within a device.
Identifying the Contexts of Technology and Engineering
  Identify contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the energy and power context of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the medical and health-related technologies contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the agricultural and biological technologies contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the information and communication contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the built environment contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the transportation and logistics contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the material conversion and processing contexts of technology and engineering.
  (Optional) Describe the computation, automation, AI, and robotics contexts of technology and engineering.
ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION
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  8480 8481 8482 8483 8484_Acknowledgments and Copyright Information.pdf
  WRS Resources STEM Scenarios.docx