Title: Use tools, machines, and processes to change materials to produce a designed product.
Course: Technology Foundations (21003-36) > Section: Using Materials as a Technological Resource

Use should include

- following safety practices
- application of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for optimization.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How is a complex tool, such as a hand drill or hand plane, based on one or more of the six simple machines?
- How would one determine which tools to use for each process?
- How would one use tools/machines to change materials so that they would be more useful in the household (e.g., changing wood into a cutting board, plastic into a napkin holder, metal into a candle holder)?