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2. Jamesville-Dewitt Middle School

3.  Define Technology  Discuss different types of technology  Site examples of the different types

4.  Problem solving  Our major means of adjusting to our environment

5. Technology promotes quality of life and makes our lives easier  Some technologies that impacts all our lives include the telephone, T.V., plastic, and automobiles. What are some technologies you could not live without? Why?

6. Technology allows people to do things that are not humanly possible. Give an example of how some super heros use technology to create their “super” power.

7.  Biological  Physical  Informational

8. The use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products  Food processing  Medicine  Agriculture

9. 8. What type of biological technology does this represent?

10. 9. What type of biological technology does this represent?

11. 10. What type of biological technology do these represent?

12. Technology that interacts with the physical form and function of a living thing  Shelter  Transportation  Clothing

13. 12. What type of physical technology do these represent?

14. 13. What type of physical technology does this represent?

15. 14. What type of physical technology does this represent?

16. Satisfies the need to communicate ideas and process information.  Graphic Communication: Uses a Combination of images and text to communicate. The most common form of communcation  Electronic: Devices that use electricity to communicate like TV, radio, and cell phones.  Photographic: Using pictures to communicate

17. 19. Which of the three types of communication does this represent?

18. 20. Which of the three types of communication does this represent?

19. 21. Which of the three types of communication does this represent?

20. Answer these questions in the blank space at the bottom of the page. 22. Why is informational technology so important to the way we live? 23. Do you think we have access to too much information? Why do you feel that way?

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