Technology

The definition of Technology for our purposes is:

• is the study of nature.

• is the use of resources to meet human needs and wants.

• the study of archaeology or the study of old things found in the ground.

• the study of how spices affect food recipes.

What are the four main areas of Technology?

• Construction, Manufacturing, Communications, Energy, Power, and transportation.

• Science, Engineering, CAD, and Computers.

• Man made stuff, Science made stuff, moving things, and sending messages.

• Math, English, Science, and Engineering,

Technologists study the

• man made world.

• natural world.

Technologists

• can build a rocket to go to the moon.

• study why sea turtles travel thousands of miles.

• figure out why birds migrate.

• study why no two snow flakes are the same shape.

Scientists

• design the construction of a house.

• repair automobiles.

• build doors for buildings.

• how bees sruvive the winter.

Science is the study of the.....

• man made world.

• natural world.

The seven resources of technology are:

• food, clothing, tools, furniture, books, paper, computers

• toys, televisions, video games, electricity, wood, time,

• nature, time, money, transportation, machines, people, drafting

• capital, information, time, energy, materials, people, tools and machines.

Capital has to do with

• materials used to make things.

• money to fund technological projects.

• natural products.

• knowledge to make things.

Information as a resource is

• knowledge we use to invent things.

• money to fund technological projects

• natural products

• materials we use to make things.

Time as a resource is

• money to fund technological projects

• how long it takes to make things.

• materials we use to make things.

• knowledge we use to invent things.