Standards in this Framework
| Standard | Description |
|---|---|
| 3.5.9-12.A | Use various approaches to communicate processes and procedures for using, maintaining, and assessing technological products and systems. |
| 3.5.9-12.B | Critically assess and evaluate a technology that minimizes resource use and resulting waste to achieve a goal. |
| 3.5.9-12.C | Develop a solution to a technological problem that has the least negative environmental and social impact. |
| 3.5.9-12.D | Critique whether existing or proposed technologies use resources sustainably. |
| 3.5.9-12.E | Evaluate how technology and engineering advancements alter human health and capabilities. |
| 3.5.9-12.F | Evaluate a technological innovation that arose from a specific society's unique need or want. |
| 3.5.9-12.G | Evaluate a technological innovation that was met with societal resistance impacting its development. |
| 3.5.9-12.H | Evaluate ways that technology and engineering can impact individuals, society, and the environment. |
| 3.5.9-12.I | Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts. |
| 3.5.9-12.J | Synthesize data and analyze trends to make decisions about technological products, systems, or processes. |
| 3.5.9-12.K | Use a computer simulation to model the impact of proposed solutions to a complex real-world problem with numerous criteria and constraints on interactions within and between systems relevant to the problem. |
| 3.5.9-12.L | Interpret laws, regulations, policies, and other factors that impact the development and use of technology. |
| 3.5.9-12.M | Develop a device or system for the marketplace. |
| 3.5.9-12.N | Analyze and use relevant and appropriate design thinking processes to solve technological and engineering problems. |
| 3.5.9-12.O | Apply appropriate design thinking processes to diagnose, adjust, and repair systems to ensure precise, safe, and proper functionality. |
| 3.5.9-12.P | Apply a broad range of design skills to a design thinking process. |
| 3.5.9-12.Q | Implement and critique principles, elements, and factors of design. |
| 3.5.9-12.R | Use a design thinking process to design an appropriate technology for use in a different culture. |
| 3.5.9-12.S | Conduct research to inform intentional inventions and innovations that address specific needs and wants. |
| 3.5.9-12.T | Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants. |
| 3.5.9-12.U | Evaluate and define the purpose of a design. |
| 3.5.9-12.V | Apply principles of human-centered design. |
| 3.5.9-12.W | Optimize a design by addressing desired qualities within criteria and constraints while considering trade-offs. |
| 3.5.9-12.X | Implement the best possible solution to a design using an explicit process. |
| 3.5.9-12.Y | Design a solution to a complex real-world problem by breaking it down into smaller, more manageable problems that can be solved through engineering. |
| 3.5.9-12.Z | Recognize and explain how their community and the world around them informs technological development and engineering design. |
| 3.5.9-12.AA | Safely apply an appropriate range of making skills to a design thinking process. |
| 3.5.9-12.BB | Assess how similarities and differences among scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical knowledge and skills contributed to the design of a product or system. |
| 3.5.9-12.CC | Analyze how technology transfer occurs when a user applies an existing innovation developed for one function for a different purpose. |
| 3.5.9-12.DD | Develop a plan that incorporates knowledge from science, mathematics, and other disciplines to design or improve a technological product or system. |
| 3.5.9-12.EE | Connect technological and engineering progress to the advancement of other areas of knowledge and vice versa. |
| 3.5.9-12.FF | Evaluate how technology enhances opportunities for new products and services through globalization. |
| 3.5.9-12.GG | Evaluate how technology and engineering have been powerful forces in reshaping the social, cultural, political, and economic landscapes throughout history. |
| 3.5.9-12.HH | Analyze how the Industrial Revolution resulted in the development of mass production, sophisticated transportation and communication systems, advanced construction practices, and improved education and leisure time. |
| 3.5.9-12.II | Investigate the widespread changes that have resulted from the Information Age, which has placed emphasis on the processing and exchange of information. |
| 3.5.9-12.JJ | Identify and explain how the evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools, materials, and processes. |
| 3.5.9-12.KK | Relate how technological and engineering developments have been evolutionary, often the result of a series of refinements to basic inventions or technological knowledge. |
| 3.5.9-12.LL | Analyze the stability of a technological system and how it is influenced by all of the components in the system, especially those in the feedback loop. |
| 3.5.9-12.MM | Troubleshoot and improve a flawed system embedded within a larger technological, social, or environmental system. |
| 3.5.9-12.NN | Analyze the rate of technological and engineering development and predict future diffusion and adoption of new innovations and technologies. |
| 3.5.9-12.OO | Use project management tools, strategies, and processes in planning, organizing, and controlling work. |
| 3.5.9-12.QQ | Implement quality control as a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria. |
| 3.5.9-12PP | Demonstrate the use of conceptual, graphical, virtual, mathematical, and physical modeling to identify conflicting considerations before the entire system is developed and to aid in design decision making. |
