Kindergarten Priority Standards

• 3.5.K-2.DD Collaborate effectively as a member of a team.

• 3.5.K-2.K Safely use tools to complete tasks.

• 3.5.K-2.AA  Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone.

• 3.5.K-2.O Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

• 3.5.K-2.S Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration

1st Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.K-2.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.K-2.C Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks. 

• 3.5.K-2.E Illustrate the helpful and harmful effects of technology.

• 3.5.K-2.U Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.

• 3.5.K-2.S Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration

2nd Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.K-2.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.K-2.N Analyze how things work. 

• 3.5.K-2.O Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.

• 3.5.K-2.V Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics. 

• 3.5.K-2.W Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple areas.

3rd Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.3-5.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.3-5.N Identify why a product or system is not working properly.

• 3.5.3-5.O Describe requirements of designing or making a product or system.

• 3.5.3-5.P Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of existing design solutions, including their own solutions.

• 3.5.3-5.Q Practice successful design skills.

• 3.5.3-5.R Apply tools, techniques, and materials in a safe manner as part of the design process.

4th Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.3-5.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.3-5. Y Identify the resources needed to get a technical job done, such as people, materials, capital, tools, machines, knowledge, energy, and time.

• 3.5.3-5. Z Create a new product that improves someone's life. 

• 3.5.3-5. BB Illustrate how, when parts of a system are missing, it may not work as planned. 

• 3.5.3-5. DD Demonstrate how simple technologies are often combined to form more complex systems. 

• 3.5.3-5.GG Describe the unique relationship between science and technology, and how the natural world can contribute to the human-made world to foster innovation. 

5th Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.3-5.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.3-5.S Illustrate that there are multiple approaches to design.

• 3.5.3-5.U Evaluate designs based on criteria, constraints, and standards. 

• 3.5.3-5.V Interpret how good design improves the human condition. 

• 3.5.3-5.X Explain how various relationships can exist between technology and engineering and other content areas.

6th Grade Priority Standards

• 3.5.3-5.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.

• 3.5.6-8.AA Adapt and apply an existing product, system, or process to solve a problem in a different setting.

•  3.5.6-8.BB Demonstrate how knowledge gained from other content areas affects the development of technological products and systems. 

• 3.5.6-8.DD Engage in a research and development process to simulate how inventions and innovations have evolved through systematic tests and refinements. 

• 3.5.6-8.FF Demonstrate how systems thinking involves considering relationships between every part, as well as how the systems interact with the environment in which it is used.

• 3.5.6-8.II Predict outcomes of a future product or system at the beginning of the design process. 

• 3.5.6-8.JJ Apply informed problem-solving strategies to the improvement of existing devices or processes or the development of new approaches. 

• 3.5.6-8LLCompare how different technologies involve different sets of processes.