Pennsylvania K–6 technology standards

Analyze how things work.

Identify and use everyday symbols.

Describe qualities of everyday products.

Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal.

Safely use tools to complete tasks.

Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.

Develop a plan in order to complete a task.

Collaborate effectively as a member of a team.

Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration.

Demonstrate that designs have requirements.

Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.

Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described.

Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

Apply skills necessary for making in design.

Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology.

Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.

Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.

Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts.

Select ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources in daily life.

Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.

Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple content areas.

Draw connections between technology and human experiences.

Compare the natural world and human-made world.

Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things.

Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone.

Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists and others who work with technology.

Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies.

Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.

Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community.

Follow directions to complete a technological task.

Use appropriate symbols, numbers and words to communicate key ideas about technological products and systems.

Identify why a product or system is not working properly.

Examine information to assess the trade-offs of using a product or system.

Describe how a subsystem is a system that operates as a part of another larger system.

Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned.

Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.

Describe the properties of different materials.

Demonstrate how tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing.

Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.

Create a new product that improves someone's life.

Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.

Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards.

Interpret how good design improves the human condition.

Apply universal principles and elements of design.

Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.

Practice successful design skills.

Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.

Create representations of the tools people made, how they cultivated to provide food, made clothing, and built shelters to protect themselves.

Describe the helpful and harmful effects of technology.

Judge technologies to determine the best one to use to complete a given task or meet a need.

Classify resources used to create technologies as either renewable or nonrenewable.

Explain why responsible use of technology requires sustainable management of resources.

Predict how certain aspects of their daily lives would be different without given technologies.

Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems.

Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.

Compare how things found in nature differ from things that are human-made, noting differences and similarities in how they are produced and used.

Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation.

Differentiate between the role of scientists, engineers, technologists, and others in creating and maintaining technological systems.

Design solutions by safely using tools, materials, and skills.

Explain how solutions to problems are shaped by economic, political, and cultural forces.

Determine factors that influence changes in a society's technological systems or infrastructure.

Explain how technologies are developed or adapted when individual or societal needs and wants change.