BPS CTE Technology and Engineering Standards Book: MS (Grades 6-8)

TEC-MS.1.01 Develop innovative products and systems that solve problems and extend capabilities based on individual or collective needs and wants.
TEC-MS.1.02 Compare and contrast the contributions of science, engineering, mathematics, and technology in the development of technological systems.
TEC-MS.1.03 Explain how technology and engineering are closely linked to creativity, which can result in both intended and unintended innovations.
TEC-MS.1.04 Apply creative problem-solving strategies to the improvement of existing devices or processes or the development of new approaches

TEC-MS.2.01 Differentiate between inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in technological systems.
TEC-MS.2.02 Illustrate how systems thinking involves considering relationships between every part, as well as how the system interacts with the environment in which it is used.
TEC-MS.2.03 Create an open-loop system that has no feedback path and requires human intervention.
TEC-MS.2.04 Create a closed-loop system that has a feedback path and requires no human intervention.
TEC-MS.2.05 Predict outcomes of a future product or system at the beginning of the design process.
TEC-MS.2.06 Compare how different technologies involve different sets of processes.
TEC-MS.2.07 Defend decisions related to a design problem.

TEC-MS.3.01 Analyze how different technological systems often interact with economic, environmental, and social systems.
TEC-MS.3.02 Apply a product, system, or process developed for one setting to another setting.
TEC-MS.3.03 Explain how knowledge gained from other content areas affects the development of technological products and systems.

TEC-MS.4.01 Explain the ways that technology can have both positive and negative effects at the same time.
TEC-MS.4.02 Analyze how the creation and use of technologies consumes renewable and non-renewable resources and creates waste.
TEC-MS.4.03 Devise strategies for reducing, reusing, and recycling waste caused from the creation and use of technology.
TEC-MS.4.04 Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, and communicate.
TEC-MS.4.05 Hypothesize what alternative outcomes (individual, cultural, and/or environmental) might have resulted had a different technological solution been selected.

TEC-MS.5.01 Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context.
TEC-MS.5.02 Evaluate trade-offs based on various perspectives as part of a decision process that recognizes the need for careful compromises among competing factors.

TEC-MS.6.01 Compare various technologies and how they have contributed to human progress.
TEC-MS.6.02 Engage in a research and development process to simulate how inventions and innovations have evolved through systematic tests and refinements.
TEC-MS.6.03 Verify how specialization of function has been at the heart of many technological improvements.

TEC-MS.7.01 Illustrate the benefits and opportunities associated with different approaches to design.
TEC-MS.7.02 Apply the technology and engineering design process.
TEC-MS.7.03 Refine design solutions to address criteria and constraints.
TEC-MS.7.04 Create solutions to problems by identifying and applying human factors in design.
TEC-MS.7.05 Assess design quality based upon established principles and elements of design.
TEC-MS.7.06 Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different design solutions.
TEC-MS.7.07 Improve essential skills necessary to successfully design.

TEC-MS.8.01 Research information from various sources to use and maintain technological products or systems.
TEC-MS.8.02 Use tools, materials, and machines to safely diagnose, adjust, and repair systems.
TEC-MS.8.03 Use devices to control technological systems.
TEC-MS.8.04 Design methods to gather data about technological systems.
TEC-MS.8.05 Interpret the accuracy of information collected.
TEC-MS.8.06 Use instruments to gather data on the performance of everyday products.