Standards in this Framework
| Standard | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.2.12.EC.1 | Analyze controversial technological issues and determine the degree to which individuals, businesses, and governments have an ethical role in decisions that are made. |
| 8.2.12.EC.2 | Assess the positive and negative impacts of emerging technologies on developing countries and evaluate how individuals, non-profit organizations, and governments have responded. |
| 8.2.12.EC.3 | Synthesize data, analyze trends, and draw conclusions regarding the effect of a technology on the individual, culture, society, and environment and share this information with the appropriate audience. |
| 8.2.12.EC.4 | Research historical tensions between environmental and economic considerations as driven by human needs and wants in the development of a technological product and present the competing viewpoints |
| 8.2.12.ED.1 | Use research to design and create a product or system that addresses a problem and make modifications based on input from potential consumers. |
| 8.2.12.ED.2 | Create scaled engineering drawings for a new product or system and make modification to increase optimization based on feedback. |
| 8.2.12.ED.3 | Evaluate several models of the same type of product and make recommendations for a new design based on a cost benefit analysis. |
| 8.2.12.ED.4 | Design a product or system that addresses a global problem and document decisions made based on research, constraints, trade-offs, and aesthetic and ethical considerations and share this information with an appropriate audience. |
| 8.2.12.ED.5 | Evaluate the effectiveness of a product or system based on factors that are related to its requirements, specifications, and constraints (e.g., safety, reliability, economic considerations, quality control, environmental concerns, manufacturability, maintenance and repair, ergonomics). |
| 8.2.12.ED.6 | Analyze the effects of changing resources when designing a specific product or system (e.g., materials, energy, tools, capital, labor). |
| 8.2.12.ETW.1 | Evaluate ethical considerations regarding the sustainability of environmental resources that are used for the design, creation, and maintenance of a chosen product. |
| 8.2.12.ETW.2 | Synthesize and analyze data collected to monitor the effects of a technological product or system on the environment. |
| 8.2.12.ETW.3 | Identify a complex, global environmental or climate change issue, develop a systemic plan of investigation, and propose an innovative sustainable solution. |
| 8.2.12.ITH.1 | Analyze a product to determine the impact that economic, political, social, and/or cultural factors have had on its design, including its design constraints. |
| 8.2.12.ITH.2 | Propose an innovation to meet future demands supported by an analysis of the potential costs, benefits, trade-offs, and risks related to the use of the innovation |
| 8.2.12.ITH.3 | Analyze the impact that globalization, social media, and access to open source technologies has had on innovation and on a society’s economy, politics, and culture. |
| 8.2.12.NT.1 | Explain how different groups can contribute to the overall design of a product. |
| 8.2.12.NT.2 | Redesign an existing product to improve form or function. |
