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Subject Area - 3:
Science and Technology and Engineering Education
  • Standard Area - 3.4: Technology and Engineering Education
  • Organizing Category - 3.4.C: Technology and Engineering Design
  • Grade Level - 3.4.7.C: GRADE 7
Standard - 3.4.7.C3

Describe how troubleshooting as a problem-solving method may identify the cause of a malfunction in a technological system.

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  • Assessment Anchor - S7.A.1 Reasoning and Analysis
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.1.1 Explain, interpret, and apply scientific, environmental, or technological knowledge presented in a variety of formats (visuals, scenarios, graphs).
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.1.1 Distinguish between a scientific theory and a general opinion, explaining how a theory is supported with evidence.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.1.2 Develop questions that can be answered through scientific inquiry and/or technological design.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.1.3 Use evidence such as observations or experimental results to support inferences.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.1.4 Use evidence to develop descriptions, explanations, and models.
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.1.2 Identify and explain the impacts of applying scientific, environmental, or technological knowledge to address solutions to practical problems.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.2.1 Describe the positive and negative effects (both intended and unintended) of scientific results or technological developments.
        Continuum of Activities
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    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.1.3 Identify and analyze evidence that certain variables may have caused measurable changes in natural or human-made systems.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.3.1 Describe how variables can cause changes in a system over time.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.1.3.2 Use evidence, observations, or explanations to make inferences about changes in systems over time (e.g., carrying capacity, succession, fossil evidence in the geologic time scale).
  • Assessment Anchor - S7.A.2 Processes, Procedures, and Tools of Scientific Investigations
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.2.1 Apply knowledge of scientific investigation or technological design in different contexts to make inferences, solve problems, and/or answer questions.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.2.1.1 Use evidence from investigations to clearly describe relationships and communicate and support conclusions.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.2.1.2 Identify a design flaw in a simple technological system and devise possible working solutions.
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.2.2 Select and safely use appropriate tools and describe the information provided by each tool.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.2.2.1 Describe the safe and appropriate use of instruments and scales to accurately and safely make measurements under a variety of conditions.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.2.2.2 Apply measurement systems to record and interpret observations under a variety of conditions.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.2.2.3 Describe ways technology is used to enhance scientific study and/or human life.
  • Assessment Anchor - S7.A.3 Systems, Models, and Patterns
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.3.1 Explain the parts of a simple system, their roles, and their relationships to the system as a whole.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.1.1 Describe a system (e.g., ecosystem, circulatory system, agricultural system) as a group of related parts with specific roles that work together to achieve an observed result.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.1.2 Explain the concept of order in a system (e.g., first to last manufacturing steps; trophic levels; simple to complex—levels of biological organization from cell to organism).
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.1.3 Distinguish between system inputs, system processes, system outputs, and system feedback.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.1.4 Identify examples of open- and closedlooped systems.
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.3.2 Apply knowledge of models to make predictions, draw inferences, or explain technological concepts.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.2.1 Make inferences based on scientific models (e.g., charts, graphs, diagrams).
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.2.2 Describe how engineers use models to develop new and improved technologies to improve scientific study and/or human life.
    • Anchor Descriptor - S7.A.3.3 Describe repeated processes or recurring elements in natural, scientific, and technological patterns.
      • Eligible Content - S7.A.3.3.1 Describe patterns as repeated processes or recurring elements in natural and human-made systems.
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