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Thinking About Technology: What Is It? How Can It Help Us?

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What is technology and how can it help us? Using a learning exercise, students read a list and choose practical applications of scientific knowledge, brainstorm examples of home, school and hospital technology, graph answers in a pie chart, and list benefits, by-products and possible solutions for one of the identified technologies. They will write at least twelve short answers.

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