LFS Lesson Plan
What is Technology?
Unit EQ:
LEQ: What is Technology?
Activating Strategies: Question. Have you ever had something break at home? Did you attempt to fix it? Did you have the right
tool to fix the product? Did you attempt to fix it anyway? What did you use to fix the product?
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary: Previewing - "Day 1" using YouTube video "Did You Know? Technology"
Vocabulary: technology, problem solving, wants, needs, process, brainstorm
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
  1. Hand out and review the 3 problems on "What is Technology" worksheet.
  2. Divide class into 3 groups and assign each group with 1 of the problems.
  3. Allow 5 minutes to brainstorm possible solutions to their assigned problem. Monkey's cracking open food
    • Students (not assigned the problem) should record solutions given by other groups.
    • Mechanical advantage
  4. Have students develope their own definition based on information discussed.
  5. Class brainstorm technological changes that affected humans on a long term/more perminant basis.
  6. Tech Ed Definition of Technology - People using information and tools and machines to process resources to meet people's
wants and needs.

*Hand out homework. Completetion grade "Pretest". Due Day 3
Summarizing Strategies:
The definition is assembled on the white board from the input that the students have. Students record theTech Ed definition on handout.