Demonstrate understanding of how materials enable technological products to function
You need to pick a real technological product (like a phone, shoe, or water bottle) and explain how the materials used in it actually make it work. You'll describe what materials are used, what properties they have (like being waterproof or flexible), and how they've been shaped, joined, or treated to do their job properly.
You describe what materials are in the product, what they can do (their properties), how they've been worked, and explain how this helps the product work.
You explain how the material's composition and structure actually cause its properties to exist, and how this composition determines what ways you can shape or manipulate it.
You discuss how all three things—the material's composition, its structure, and how it's been manipulated—work together as an interconnected system to make the product function as intended.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.