2. MS Tech Ed Curriculum Overview  Curriculum Overview  Grade Level Curriculum  Availability  Wiki contents  Use of traditional Industrial Arts tools

3. Grade Level Curriculum  6 th Grade – Exploring Technology  7 th Grade – Invention and Innovation  8 th Grade – Technological Systems

4. Curriculum Availability  All lessons on MS Tech Ed Wiki  https://msteched.wikispaces.hcpss.org/ 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. MS Tech Ed Curriculum Summary  Curriculum aligned with ITEEA standards, MSDE VSC and HCPSS benchmarks  Specific lessons designed for 6 th, 7 th and 8 th 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