Intermediate

Intermediate Goals:

and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs. (Math, Science, Technology NYS Standards http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa1_2.pdf)******
 * Goal: Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products

**Goal: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies. (Math, Science, Technology NYS Standards http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa1_2.pdf)****** Standard 2 intermediate **1. Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.** Students: **•** use a range of equipment and software to integrate several forms of information in order to create good quality audio, video, graphic, and text-based presentations. • use spreadsheets and data-base software to collect, process, display, and analyze information. Students access needed information from electronic data bases and on-line telecommunication services. • systematically obtain accurate and relevant information pertaining to a particular topic from a range of sources, including local and national media, libraries, museums, governmental agencies, industries, and individuals. • collect data from probes to measure events and phenomena. • use simple modeling programs to make predictions. **This is evident when students:** student compose letters on a word processor and send them to representatives of industry, governmental agencies, museums, or laboratories seeking information pertaining to a student project. student acquire data from weather stations. student use a software package, such as Science Tool Kit, to monitor the acceleration of a model car traveling down a given distance on a ramp. student use computer software to model how plants grow plants under different conditions.

**2. Knowledge of the impacts and limitations of information systems is essential to its effective and ethical use.** Students: • understand the need to question the accuracy of information displayed on a computer because the results produced by a computer may be affected by incorrect data entry. • identify advantages and limitations of data-handling programs and graphics programs. • understand why electronically stored personal information has greater potential for misuse than records kept in conventional form.

**3. Information technology can have positive and negative impacts on society, depending upon how it is used.** Students: • use graphical, statistical, and presentation software to presents project to fellow classmates. • describe applications of information technology in mathematics, science, and other technologies that address needs and solve problems in the community. • explain the impact of the use and abuse of electronically generated information on individuals and families.
 * Goal: Provide opportunities for collobrative learning between students outside our district and possibly outside of our country through the use of technology.**
 * # || Actions need to achieve Goal || Completion || Person Responsible || Evidence ||
 * 1 || Identify curriculmn area/lesson topic ||  || Teacher ||   ||
 * 2 || Identify Technology to be utilized ||  || Teachers ||   ||
 * || Hardware ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Software ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Internet/networking ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3 || Staff Development / Training ||  || Admin / Teachers ||   ||
 * 4 || Lesson and project development ||  || Teachers ||   ||
 * 5 || Networking to find Educational partnerships ||  || Teachers / Admin ||   ||
 * 6 || Student Colobration ||  || Student / Teachers ||   ||


 * Goal: Use technology to make information more acessable to students.**


 * # || Actions Needed to Achieve Goal || Completion || Person Responsible || Evidence ||
 * 1 || Provide "Kindles" for students ||  || Admin / Students ||   ||
 * 2 || Allow students to use Ipods for podcasts ||  || Admin ||   ||
 * 3 || Allow students to use cell phones in class for text based software. ||  || Admin ||   ||