Standards with the same topic and subject but for other grades
Explain how tools, machines, products, and systems use energy in order to do work.
Examine reasons why a transportation system may lose efficiency or fail (e.g., one part is missing or malfunctioning or if a subsystem is not working).
Describe how various relationships exist between technology and other fields.
Describe how technology affects humans in various ways.
Explain why new technologies are developed and old ones are improved in terms of needs and wants.
Identify the technologies in agriculture that make it possible for food to be available year round.
Recognize that a transportation system has many parts that work together to help people travel and to move goods from place to place.
Describe how technologies are often combined.
Explain how the use of technology can have unintended consequences.
Describe how waste may be appropriately recycled or disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment.