Technology: Past, present, and future
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A lesson plan for Grade 6 Science
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- Appropriate grades
- 6
- Subjects
- science (technology and innovation), thinking skills (higher order thinking, information literacy, research skills)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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In this lesson, students broaden their awareness of technology by examining inventions of the past and present and by learning how inventions inspire and lead to the development of other inventions. After engaging in a discussion of what “technology” means, students classify items as to whether or not they can be considered technology. Then students complete the student E-Sheet, which they should use to explore an invention timeline on “The History of Inventions,” which highlights a number of important human-made developments. Upon completion of the investigation, the teacher engages students in a conversation about the benefits of technology. Finally, students choose one invention and conduct more research on that specific innovation. Science NetLinks provides links to student handouts, web resources, questions for discussion, and instructions for completing the activity. This lesson also contains links to similar activities and the “Inventor of the Week” site from The Invention Dimension.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 2: The learner will demonstrate an understanding of technological design.
- Objective 2.01: Explore evidence that "technology" has many definitions.
- Artifact or hardware.
- Methodology or technique.
- System of production.
- Social-technical system.
- Objective 2.02: Use information systems to:
- Identify scientific needs, human needs, or problems that are subject to technological solution.
- Locate resources to obtain and test ideas.
- Objective 2.03: Evaluate technological designs for:
- Application of scientific principles.
- Risks and benefits.
- Constraints of design.
- Consistent testing protocols.
- Objective 2.04: Apply tenets of technological design to make informed consumer decisions
- Products.
- Processes.
- Systems.
- Objective 2.01: Explore evidence that "technology" has many definitions.
