Katie Martin, Mason Taylor, & Aaron Nugent

Directions: List 2-3 standards from your content area that you would like to write a learning
segment for. Use those standards to write a central focus that incorporates those standards.
Refer to your edTPA handbook for an example of a central focus.
Standards:
Support the statement that most technological development has been evolutionary, the
result of a series of refinements to a basic invention, through an electronic presentation.
1.1
Apply the steps of the design process including defining a problem, brainstorming,
researching and generating ideas, identifying criteria and specifying constraints,
exploring possibilities, selecting an approach, developing a design proposal, making a
model or prototype, testing, and communicating results. 4.2, 4.6
Central Focus:
Understanding the processes and applications of the design and evolution of technology over
time.

Group Members: Katie Martin, Mason

Taylor, Aaron, Nugent

Content Area and Grade Level(s):

Learning Segment Title:

Content Standard(s):
Support the statement that most
technological development has been
evolutionary, the result of a series of
refinements to a basic invention,
through an electronic presentation.
1.1
Apply the steps of the design process
including defining a problem,
brainstorming, researching and
generating ideas, identifying criteria
and specifying constraints, exploring
possibilities, selecting an approach,
developing a design proposal, making
a model or prototype, testing, and
communicating results. 4.2, 4.6
Student Learning
Objective(s)

Central Focus: U
nderstanding the
processes and applications of the design and
evolution of technology over time.

Models of Instruction and Learning Tasks

Lesson 1:
Intro to Evolution of
Technology

Students will be able

to identify how
technologies change
over time.
Students will be able
to describe how a
given technology has
evolved.

[Insert 3-5 activities or tasks and

include models of instruction.]

Lesson 2:
Evolution of
Technology
Mini-Project

Students will track

the evolution of a
technology.
Students will
document the
evolution of their
chosen technology.

[Insert 3-5 activities or tasks and

include models of instruction.]

Lesson 3:
How the
Technologies Begin
(aka Intro to Design
Process)

Students will be able

to describe how the
design process aids
in the evolution of
technology.
Students will be able
to identify the core
components of the
design process.
Students will
document their
brainstorming
process including
identifying criteria,
specifying limitations,
research.

[Insert 3-5 activities or tasks and

include models of instruction.]

Lesson 4:
Innovation Using the
Design Process

Students will be able

to identify a problem
they believe the
design process can
address.
Students will create
an innovative product
using their
knowledge of the
design process.
Students will
contribute to the
evolution of

[Insert 3-5 activities or tasks and

include models of instruction.]

technology by
improving the product
they have previously
studied.