1 - Getting Started ~4 mins
Look around our classroom. What tools and machines help us every day?
Hands up: name one thing that helps you see, hear, travel, talk or keep time.
2 - What Is Technology? ~4 mins
Today we meet two big words.
Technology means a tool or machine that helps us do a job.
Purpose means the job it is meant to do.
Look at this torch. What job does it do for people?
3 - Handle the Technology Tray ~5 mins
In your group, carefully look at and handle the safe objects and picture cards on your tray.
For each one, talk about: What is it? What job does it do? Have you seen one like it at home or school?
4 - Sort by Purpose ~8 mins
Sort your cards and objects into five purpose groups: helps us see, helps us hear, helps us travel, helps us talk, helps us keep time.
Talk about why each one belongs in its group. If something could fit more than one group, choose the main job and say why.
5 - Sort on the Board ~6 mins
Call out where each card should go. We will sort them together into five purpose groups: helps us see, helps us hear, helps us travel, helps us talk, or helps us keep time.
When the purpose sort is finished, we meet two new words that go together: digital and non-digital.
Digital means it has a screen, or buttons that show numbers or menus.
Non-digital means a plain switch and simple parts with no screen, like our torch.
Spot one digital and one non-digital card still on the board, and say how you know.
Sort the technologies by purpose
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