7-8+technology-engineering


 * Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7/8

**Standard: Technology and Engineering**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0807.T/E.1** Identify the tools and procedures needed to test the design features of a prototype

**Assessment Topic:** What properties can be tested?

**Essential Question (s):** What is a property of a substance? Why will knowing the properties be beneficial to an engineer?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7/8

**Standard: Technology and Engineering**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0807.T/E.2** Evaluate a protocol to determine if the engineering design process was successfully applied

**Assessment Topic:** To understand the engineering design process

**Essential Question (s):** What might the engineering design process be applied to? How would a scientist use the engineering design process in constructing a satellite?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7/8

**Standard: Technology and Engineering**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0807.T/E.3** Distinguish between the intended benefits and the unintended consequences of a new technology

**Assessment Topic:** The impact of technology

**Essential Question (s):** What is the difference in a benefit and a consequence?

How can benefits be positive or negative?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7/8

**Standard: Technology and Engineering**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0807.T/E.4** Differentiate between adaptive and assistive engineered products (e.g. food, biofuels, medicines, integrated pest management).

**Assessment Topic:** Adaptive and Assistive Products

**Essential Question (s):** What would be the difference in assistive and adaptive products? When would assistive or adaptive products be a better choice than the other?