LESSON PLAN Technology at Work
PROCEDURE:
1. Ask your students what they think of when they hear
the word technology. Ask them when
they think technology began. Their answers are likely to center on modern
technology, especially computer-related technology.
2.
Let students know that technology is defined as “any invention, including
tools, machines, materials, and sources of power, that makes people's work
easier.” Then ask them to reconsider their ideas about when technology began.
They should realize that technology began the first time a human, or even a
pre-human, used a stick or a rock as a tool or a weapon. Such advances as the
ability to make fire, the development of agriculture, and the use of simple
machines such as the lever or the inclined plane count as technology, as do
electricity, nuclear power, and the computer.
