1. What is Technology? Technology is all around you. It has always been a part of your daily life. Yet could you define technology? Before I tell you what technology means, take out a sheet of loose-leaf and write a paragraph: What you think technology is? (To be passed in with your name on it.)

2. Technology is: Processes and knowledge that people use to extend human abilities and to satisfy human needs and wants. In other words, people create technology to solve problems and to make it possible to do new things. When people needed a way to keep food cold, they invented refrigerators. On your paper write of a need that humanity created a technology for.

3. Technology Technology is a word with origins in the Greek word technologia (τεχνολογία), techne (τέχνη) "craft" and logia (λογία) "saying." It is a broad term dealing with the use and knowledge of humanity's tools and crafts. origins Greektoolscraftsorigins Greektoolscrafts

4. The Six Areas of Technology Communication Energy and Power Manufacturing Construction Transportation Bio-related Technology On your paper give an example of each.

5. The History of Technology

6. The Stone Age Early humans 2 million years ago to about 4000 BC Went from basic chipped stone tools, needles and harpoons, finally to highly polished items. The birth of agriculture

7. The Bronze Age The Bronze Age Human culture begins Most weapons and tools were made of bronze (copper mixed with tin). Melts at a low temperature so it’s easy to work with. Ended around 1200 BC

8. The Iron Age Period of development of “modern technology” Iron replaces bronze (smashes it to smithereens in any sword fight) Furnaces were built to reach the high melting point of the metal Took place about 500 BCTime roads were built, aqueducts were used, and finally the birth of public sewers.

9. Industrial Revolution The age of super growth with innovations in technology 1750 to 1830’s the earth starts to die (well actually, the increase in the number of factories made the amount of greenhouse gases shoot through the roof)

10. The 20 th Century The number of innovations are countless. The human race is a technological superpower, well, to us anyway.