Standard: Science and Technology

Students recognize that science and technology are interconnected and that using technology involves assessment of the benefits, risks and costs. Students should build scientific and technological knowledge, as well as the skill required to design and construct devices. In addition, they should develop the processes to solve problems and understand that problems may be solved in several ways.

• Benchmark A: [9-10]
  Explain the ways in which the processes of technological design respond to the needs of society.<
  

• Benchmark B: [9-10]
  Explain that science and technology are interdependent; each drives the other.