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STEM Technologies III

Career and Technical Education, Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

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STEM Technologies III provides students with knowledge and processes needed to extend their attainment of technological literacy and awareness of careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students gain skills in the application, design, production, and assessment of products, services, and systems in a variety of areas.

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Design a technological system that can be connected to another systemDesign a variety of technologies that involve different sets of processesDemonstrate how every part of a system relates to anotherAnalyze malfunctions of any part of a system that may affect the system’s function and qualityCompare and contrast trade-offs as a decision processPerform basic maintenance on systems within the program. and SocietyAnalyze the ways, both positive and negative, that the use of technology affects humans, including their safetyCritique the management of waste produced by technological systems as a societal issueDesign a solution to alleviate and/or repair the damage caused by various disastersMake decisions about the development and use of technologies that put environmental and economic concerns in direct compDevelop a plan to produce products and systemsCritique criteria, constraints, and tradeoffs in a designSynthesize elements of the design process to develop solutions for a problemAnalyze results of solutions to problems using the steps in the design processDesign two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations of a design solutionEvaluate designs to transform ideas into practical solutionsCritique a product or system and document the evaluationApply a design process to solve problems in and beyond the classroomTest, evaluate, and modify a design in relation to criteria and constraintsCultivate a digital identity and reputation, demonstrating an awareness of the permanence of one’s actions in the digitaManage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and securityEmploy research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuitsEvaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information, media, data, or other resourcesCurate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create a collection of artifacts thatDevelop solutions to real-world issues by analyzing ideas and solutions
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