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Standard Area - 3.4: Technology and Engineering Education
Organizing Category - 3.4.E: The Designed World
Grade Level - 3.4.7.E: GRADE 7

Standard - 3.4.7.E3

Examine the efficiency of energy use in our environment

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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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