HCPSS Middle School

Tech Ed

Curriculum

MS Tech Ed Curriculum Overview

Curriculum Overview

Grade Level Curriculum

Availability

Wiki contents

Use of traditional Industrial Arts tools

Grade Level Curriculum

6th Grade – Exploring Technology7th Grade – Invention and Innovation8th Grade – Technological Systems

Curriculum Availability

All lessons on MS Tech Ed Wiki https://msteched.wikispaces.hcpss.org/

Align to ITEEA Standards for Technological Literacy (STL) benchmarks

Apply MSDE Voluntary State Curriculum standards

Include HCPSS Tech Ed benchmarks

Incorporate Common Core Standards

Disciplinary Literacy (Close reading of Complex Text)

Persuasive Argument Writing

Use of traditional Industrial Arts tools

Hand and power tools used to build technology projects

Engineering Design Process used to guide design, implementation, test and analysis of project

Projects demonstrate technologies and physics principles

Instruction provided in safe use of basic tools

Scroll Saw

Disc/Belt Sander

Drill Press

HCPSS Safety Web site

Use of traditional Industrial Arts tools

Instruction provided in safe use of basic tools

Scroll Saw

Disc/Belt Sander

Drill Press

HCPSS Safety Web site Provides instructional material including

Demonstration videos viewed by students to reinforce hands-on fabrication lab instruction

MS Tech Ed Curriculum Summary

Curriculum aligned with ITEEA standards, MSDE VSC and HCPSS benchmarks

Specific lessons designed for 6th, 7th and 8th grades

Curriculum available on MS Tech Wiki

All lesson notes, worksheets and quizzes uploaded

Includes lessons for incorporating Common Core Standards (DL and persuasive argument writing)

Traditional hand and power tools used to build projects using the Engineering Design Process