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Last Update: May 20, 2005

 

Industrial Technology

INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS
Grade: 7
Students are provided active learning situations and higher-order thinking skill development through practical problem-solving experiences; experience with technology; and exploration of personal interests, aptitudes, and abilities. The goal of the course is to prepare students to be technologically literate through the study of resources, processes, systems, and impacts of technology. Schools with modular “synergistic” labs provide active learning situations that allow students to explore technology and related careers.

TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Grade: 8
Technological Systems is the concluding technology education experience at the middle school level. By simulating technological systems and assessing their impacts as well as applying and expanding what they have learned in academic subjects and previous technology education courses, students acquire a global view of technology. Schools with modular “synergistic” labs provide active learning situations that allow students to explore technology and related careers. The content covered in all modular labs is designed to reinforce the Virginia standards of learning (SOL) in math, science, language arts, social studies, and technology.