Let's begin by reviewing our goals & objectives: Standard - 3.4.4.A1 Understand that tools, materials, and skills are used to make things and carry out tasks. Standard - 3.4.4.A2 Understand that systems have parts and components that work together. Standard - 3.4.4.A3 Describe how various relationships exist between technology and other fields. Standard - 3.4.4.B1 Describe how technology affects humans in various ways. Standard - 3.4.4.B2 Explain how the use of technology affects the environment in good and bad ways. Standard - 3.4.4.B3 Explain why new technologies are developed and old ones are improved in terms of needs and wants. Standard - 3.4.4.B4 Describe how the history of civilization is linked closely to technological development. Standard - 3.4.4.C1 Understand that there is no perfect design. Standard - 3.4.4.C2 Describe the engineering design process: Define a problem. Generate ideas. Select a solution and test it. Make the item. Evaluate the item. Communicate the solution with others. Present the results. Standard - 3.4.4.C3 Explain how asking questions and making observations help a person understand how things work and can be repaired. Standard - 3.4.4.D1 Investigate how things are made and how they can be improved. Standard - 3.4.4.D2 Recognize and use everyday symbols (e.g. icons, simple electrical symbols measurement) to communicate key ideas. Identify and use simple hand tools (e.g., hammer, scale) correctly and safely. Standard - 3.4.4.D3 Investigate and assess the influence of a specific technology or system on the individual, family, community, and environment. Standard - 3.4.4.E1 Identify tools and devices that have been designed to provide information about a healthy lifestyle. Standard - 3.4.4.E2 Identify the technologies in agriculture that make it possible for food to be available year round. Standard - 3.4.4.E3 Identify types of energy and the importance of energy conservation. Standard - 3.4.4.E4 Explain how information and communication systems allow information to be transferred from human to human. Standard - 3.4.4.E5 Recognize that a transportation system has many parts that work together to help people travel and to move goods from place to place. Standard - 3.4.4.E6 Identify key aspects of manufacturing processes (designing products, gathering resources and using tools to separate, form and combine materials in order to produce products). Standard - 3.4.4.E7 Understand that structures rest on foundations and that some structures are temporary, while others are permanent.