1. What is technology for? Technology makes our lives easier. It helps us when we eat or drink, when we wash, when we have fun in our spare time. But technology doesn’t just deal with new sophisticated inventions. A table, a bed, a ball pen…, all of them are created by technology. Any object we use every day needs a process of creation that implies knowledge in very varied areas.
2. Drawing the ideas When we have an idea and we want to create the real object, we have to draw it on a paper; we need to know how to draw.
3. Choosing the material If we have already decided the aspect, the size, the functioning of our object, we have to choose the most suitable materials to make it. So we need to know the materials that we are going to work with.
15. Using computers The most useful electrical machine is the computer. We aren’t going to build any computer, but we are going to use it for: Writing Searching for information Drawing Communicating Telling stories and so many things…
16. The technologic process Technology helps us to solve the problems and the needs we have. We follow the same steps in every problem. Like this Identify the problem or the need Explore ideas and design solutions Build the object Test if it works
