CAPS Grade 8 Technology

Technology is the use of knowledge, skills, values and resources to develop practical solutions to problems and, in so doing, to meet peoples’ needs and wants. The solutions are usually practical and take the form of products. 

Grade 8 of the CAPS Curriculum – Senior Phase has lessons and activities to help the child with the following skills in the Technology curriculum.

By the end of the course, students will:

• develop and apply specific design skills to solve technological problems
• understand the concepts and knowledge used in Technology education and use them responsibly and purposefully
• appreciate the interaction between people’s values and attitudes, technology, society and the environment.