1. What is Technology?

2. What comes to mind when you hear the word “technology”?

3. Technology in a Bag What is the technology?
What does your technology do? What problem does it solve?
How else could you use it?
What material(s) is it made of?
What other materials could it be made of?

4. Our definition of technology:

5. EiE defines technology as:
Anything human-made that is used to solve a problem or fulfill a desire. Technology can be an object, a system, or a process.

6. Return to the Spoon Transition: Using the spoon to plant a tree...
What would you change about it and why?
Summarize everything that they said and explain that what they just described (using knowledge of materials and properties, prior knowledge, etc. to redesign a technology to solve a new problem is engineering)

7. Teacher Hat: What is Technology?
Take about 1-2 minutes to discuss the Teacher Hat questions in your groups.
Preparatory lesson for all units
Omit “process” with young students