NSES Content Standard A Science as Inquiry: Understanding about scientific inquiry Grades 5-8, page 148 Technology used to gather data enhances accuracy and allows scientists to manipulate and quantify results of investigations.

 
Benchmark 3A The Nature of Technology: Technology and Science
Grades 3-5, page 45
Measuring instruments can be used to gather accurate information for making scientific comparisons of objects and events and for designing and constructing things that will work properly.

Benchmark 3A The Nature of Technology: Technology and Science
Grades 6-8, page 46
Technology is essential to science for such purposes as access to outer space and other remote locations, sample collection and treatment, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information.