Introduction to Technology Education, Part 1, is a 20 week course designed to allow Seventh Grade students the opportunity to develop technical literacy through examination of the historical and modern uses of technology and its impacts on society and the environment.

Individual and group activities within the course aid in the development of verbal communication skills such as listening and speaking, and allow the student to gain an      appreciation of self worth.

The course will introduce each student to the importance of technology on human progress and will allow further study into the expected and unexpected consequences of our technological achievements.

Students will gain experience in problem solving, decision making, and creative thinking and will utilize materials and processes generic to all technologies. This course of study has been developed with the expectation that instruction will be provided through hands-on, laboratory based activities.