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Ohio's Academic Content Standards in ScienceScience and Technology
Students should recognize that science and technology are interconnected and that using technology involves assessment of the benefits, risks, and costs. Students should build scientific and technological knowledge, as well as the skill required to design and construct devices. In addition, they should develop the processes to solve problems and to understand that problems may be solved in several ways.
| | | By the end of the K - 2 program: | | A. | Explain why people, when building or making something, need to determine what it will be made of and how it will affect other people and the environment. (ORC Resources) | | B. | Explain that to construct something requires planning, communication, problem solving and tools. (ORC Resources) |
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| | | By the end of the 6 - 8 program: | | A. | Give examples of how technological advances, influenced by scientific knowledge, affect the quality of life. (ORC Resources) | | B. | Design a solution or product taking into account needs and constraints (e.g., cost, time, trade-offs, properties of materials, safety, aesthetics). (ORC Resources) |
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| | | By the end of the 9 - 10 program: | | A. | Explain the ways in which the processes of technological design respond to the needs of society. (ORC Resources) | | B. | Explain that science and technology are interdependent; each drives the other. (ORC Resources) |
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| | | By the end of the 11 - 12 program: | | A. | Predict how human choices today will determine the quality and quantity of life on Earth. (ORC Resources) |
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