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“Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph” and Educational Standards


“Reinventing Morse: Build your own Telegraph” is an educational science kit designed and manufactured by
Harris Educational for use in schools, home schools, science fairs, and by hobbyists. The kit includes a 24
page instruction manual that details multiple engaging science experiments that can be safely performed
using the kit. The experiments are designed with best practices in mind and are meant to be open ended
and inquiry based. Student experimenters are encouraged to ask questions, find answers, and test
hypothesis that help illustrate science and technology principles. The instructions were designed with two
sets of educational standards in mind:

The National Science Educational Standards as published by the National Science Resources Center
(NSRC) and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).

http://www.nsta.org/publications/nses.aspx

and

The Standards for Technological Literacy as published by the International Technology Education
Association (ITEA)

http://www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/Publications/TAA_Publications.html

It is our hope that by focusing on standards this science kit will more easily fit into a school's science
curriculum, conform to the goals of that curriculum, and provide a familiar and easy to teach set of subject
matter for educators. It is also our goal that by focusing on standards this kit will be more valuable to home
schooling parents and to science hobbyists and science fair participants.

This document will list the experiments included in the instruction guide for this science kit and will cite the
specific science and technology standards addressed by this science kit.

List of Experiments Included in the Experiment Guide:

Your First Telegraph


Encoding Messages
Making a Buzzer
Making a Relay (and connecting multiple sets)
History of the Telegraph

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National Science Education Standards


Science as Inquiry Standards [K-12, 5-8, 9-12: Content Standard A]

5-8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry


5-8: Understanding about Scientific Inquiry
9-12: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
9-12: Understanding about scientific inquiry
Physical Science Standards [K-12, 5-8, 9-12: Content Standard B]

K-4: Properties of objects and materials


K-4: Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism
5-8: Properties and changes of properties in matter
5-8: Transfer of energy
9-12: Structure and properties of matter
9-12: Conservation of energy and increase in disorder
9-12: Interactions of energy and matter
Science and Technology Standards [K-12, 5-8, 9-12: Content Standard E]
K-4: Abilities to distinguish between natural objects and objects made by humans
K-4: Abilities of technological design
K-4: Understanding about science and technology
5-8: Abilities of technological design
5-8: Understanding about science and technology
9-12: Abilities of technological design
9-12: Understanding about science and technology
Science in Personal and Social Perspectives [K-12, 5-8, 9-12: Content Standard F]
K-4: Science and technology in local challenges
5-8: Risks and benefits
5-8: Science and technology in society
9-12: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges

History and Nature of Science Standards [K-12, 5-8, 9-12: Content Standard G]
K-4: Science as a human endeavor
5-8: Science as a human endeavor
5-8: History of Science
9-12: Science as a human endeavor
9-12: Historical perspectives

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Standards for Technological Literacy

1 The Characteristics and Scope of Technology

3-5: Tools, Materials, and Skills


3-5: Creative Thinking
6-8: Usefulness of Technology
6-8: Development of Technology
6-8: Human Creativity and Motivation
9-12: Nature of Technology
9-12: Commercialization of technology

2 The Core Concepts of Technology

3-5: Systems, Requirements, Processes


6-8: Systems, Requirements, Processes, Controls
9-12: Systems, Requirements, Processes, Controls, Optimization and Trade-offs

3 The Relationships among Technologies and the Connections between Technology and Other Fields

3-5: Relationships between technology and other fields of study


6-8: Interaction of systems
6-8: Knowledge from other fields of study and technology
9-12: Innovation and Invention
9-12: Knowledge Protection and Patents
9-12: Technological Knowledge and advances of science and mathematics and vice versa

4 The Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political Effects of Technology

6-8: Attitudes toward development and use


6-9: Influences on economy, politics, and culture
9-12: Rapid or Gradual Changes
9-12: Cultural, Social, Economic, and Political Change

5 The Effects of Technology on the Environment

3-5: Affects environment in good and bad ways


9-12: Conservation
9-12: Reduce resource use
9-12: Reduce negative consequences of technology

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6 The Role of Society in the Development and Use of Technology


K-2: Needs and Wants of Individuals
3-5: Changing needs and wants
3-5: Expansion or limitation of development
6-8: Development driven by demands, values, and interests
6-8 Inventions and innovations
6-8: Social and Cultural priorities
6-8: Acceptance and use of products and systems
9-12: Factors affecting designs and demands of technologies
7 The Influence of Technology on History
K-2: Influence of Technology on History
3-5: Tools for food, clothing, and protection
6-8: Processes of invention and innovation
6-8: Evolution of techniques, measurement, and resources
6-8: Technological and Scientific Knowledge
9-12: Evolutionary development of technology
9-12: History of Technology
9-12: The Industrial Revolution
9-12: The Information Age
8 The Attributes of Design
6-8: Design leads to useful products and systems
6-8: There is no perfect design
6-8: Requirements
9-12: Design problems are usually not clear
9-12: Designs need to be refined
9-12: Requirements
9 Engineering Design
3-5: Creativity in considering all ideas
6-8: Modeling, Testing, Evaluating, and Modifying
9-12: Design principles
9-12: Factors in Engineering Design
10 The Role of Troubleshooting, Research and Development, Invention and Innovation, and
Experimentation in Problem Solving
3-5: Troubleshooting, Invention and Innovation, Experimentation
6-8: Troubleshooting, Invention and Innovation, Experimentation
9-12: Researching technological problems

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12 Use and Maintain Technological Products and Systems

K-2: Discover how things work


K-2: Recognize and use everyday symbols
3-5: Follow-step-by-step instructions
3-5: Select and safely use tools
3-5: Use computers to access and organize information
3-5: Use common symbols
6-8: Use information to see how things work
6-8: Use computers and calculators
6-8 Operate systems
9-12: Diagnose a malfunctioning system
9-12: Troubleshoot and maintain systems
9-12: Operate and maintain systems
9-12: Use computers to communicate

13 Assess the Impact of Products and Systems

6-8: Design and use instruments to collect data


6-8: Use collected data to find trends
6-8: Interpret and evaluate accuracy of information
9-12: collect information and judge its quality
9-12: Synthesize data to draw conclusions

16 Energy and Power Technologies

3-5: Energy comes in different forms


3-5: Tools, Machines, Products, and Systems use energy to do work
6-8: Energy can be used to do work using many processes
6-8: Power is the rate at which energy is converted from one form to another
9-12: Energy Sources
9-12: Power systems are a source, a process, and a load

17 Information and Communication Technologies

3-5: Processing information


3-5: Communication
3-5: Symbols
6-8: Information and communication systems
6-8: Communication systems encode, transmit, and receive information
6-8: Factors influencing the design of a message

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9-12: Parts of information and communication systems


9-12: Information and communication systems
9-12: Communication systems and sub-systems
9-12: Communicating through symbols

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