Activities

1. List three types of technology you might use to communicate with a friend in Florida.
   
   
2. List three types of technology you might use for transportation.
   
   
3. What is one tool you could use on a farm to make your work easier?
   
   
4. Identify one way energy is produced in our community.
   
   
5. Write a paragraph to explain two positive and two negative impacts cars have on the environment.
   
   
6. Write a paragraph to explain two positive and two negative impacts of technology on society.
   
   
7. Predict two effects that might happen if there was an accident at a nuclear power plant.
   
   
8. Draw a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the positive and negative features of two types of energy production.
   
   
9. Write a paragraph using at least three facts to explain whether or not you think burning fossil fuel is a good source of energy.
   
   
10. Construct a timeline to show how one example of technology has changed over time.
    
    
11. Write a letter to an inventor explaining how his or her invention has impacted our society.  Describe both positive and negative impacts.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Student can list three forms of technology that could be used to communicate.  Examples include, but are not limited to: telephone, e-mail, texting, Skype, social media sites
2. Student can list three forms of technology that could be used for transportation.  Examples include, but are not limited to: a car, truck, bicycle, train, plane
3. Student correctly names one tool that would make farming easier.  Examples include, but are not limited to: a plow, tractor, milking machine
4. Student correctly identified one source of energy. Examples include, but are not limited to: solar energy, wind power, hydropower, nuclear energy, fossil energy
5. Student can list two positive and two negative impacts cars have on the environment, and can adequately explain their thinking.
   Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:

• New cars are becoming more energy efficient and burn less gas than older models
• Some new cars run on electricity
• Larger trucks burn more fuel and pollute the environment
• Cars can collide with animals and kill or seriously injure them

6. Student can list two positive and two negative impacts technology has on society, and can adequately explain their thinking.
   
   Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:

• Some help connect people who live both close, and far away
• Helps to transport people to their destinations faster and
• Human contact has become limited
• People rely on spell checking devices

7. Student can predict two effects of an accident at a nuclear power plant that are realistic, and can adequately explain their thinking.
   
   Acceptable responses might include, but are not limited to:

• Evacuations of humans
• Plants and animals could become sick or be killed

8. Student can list multiple similarities and differences between 2 energy sources.  Some of these energy sources include, but are not limited to: solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, nuclear energy
   
   
9. Student responses will vary.  Use this rubric to evaluate the responses.

10. Student responses will vary.  Use this rubric to evaluate the responses.

11. Student responses will vary.  Use this rubric to evaluate the responses.