Core Technologies
Simple Machines
Design Process
Construction Process
Engineer's Notebook
100
Technology of producing, storing, controlling, transmitting, and getting work from electrical energy
What is electrical technology?
100
A stiff bar that rests on a support called a fulcrum which lifts or moves loads.
What is a lever?
100
The step that addresses the issue that requires a solution.
What is defining the problem?
100
The step in which you add the framework to your house, including interior and exterior walls, floors, ceilings, and roofs.
What is building the framework?
100
A journal used to record ideas, inventions, experiments, records, and observations.
What is an Engineer's Notebook?
200
Technology of producing, storing, controlling, transmitting, and getting work from heat energy.
What is thermal technology?
200
A simple machine that uses grooved wheels and a rope to raise, lower or move a load.
What is a pulley?
200
The step in which you formulate a plan and define the criteria and constraints.
What is developing ideas?
200
This is the step that requires the addition of footing and the foundation walls.
What is setting the foundation?
200
A ruled or grid format.
What is the standard page layout?
300
Technology of putting mechanical parts and materials together to create supports, containers, shelters, connectors, and functional shapes.
What is structural technology?
300
A slanting surface connecting a lower level to a higher level.
What is an inclined plane?
300
A process used to find a solution to a problem by collecting ideas without regard for feasibility, which occur from a group of people brought together for a specific purpose.
What is brainstorming?
300
The step in which you add the final touches, such as painting the walls and putting in furniture.
What is finishing the exterior and interior?
300
A drawing including dimensions, labels, and diagrams.
What is an annotated sketch?
400
Technology of putting together mechanical parts to produce, control, and transmit motion.
What is mechanical technology?
400
An object with at least one slanting side ending in a sharp edge, which cuts material apart.
What is a wedge?
400
"Bringing the solution to life" is this step.
What is generating a solution?
400
The step where you choose the location and clear, mark, level, and grade the site.
What is preparing the site?
400
All entries are written in order?
What is chronological order?
500
Technology of producing light; using light for information collection, storage, retrieval, processing, and communication; and using light to do work.
What is optical technology?
500
An inclined plane wrapped around a pole which holds things together or lifts materials.
What is a screw?
500
The step that makes you reflect on what worked and what didn't.
What is testing and evaluating?
500
Adding landscaping, sidewalks, and driveways is included in this step.
What is completing the site?
500
The medium used to record data in the journal.
What is a pen?
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