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WHAT'S UP IN TECHNOLOGY? also features a print Teacher's Guide produced by Thirteen/WNET's Educational Publishing Department. This guide contains practical lesson plans teachers can use in classroom settings to help them illustrate how core math and science concepts can have real-world applications. Below, we present online versions of two of these lesson plans. A downloadable desktop-quality published PDF (Portable Document Format) version of the entire Teacher's Guide is also available.
Each lesson has a section designed for teachers followed by a student activities section.
Test a Production System
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Seemingly small innovations in technology can lead to monumental change. Production, one of the four families of technology (along with communication, transportation, and biotechnology), provides us with energy, products created through manufacturing, and the structures that comprise the human-made environment. In this lesson, students use 3"x5" index cards to explore how changing the shape of a given material can also change its strength.
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Growing Plants Hydroponically
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While biotechnology and biorelated technologies may be difficult to spot, they are everywhere around us. The use of environmentally controlled greenhouses and hydroponics (growing without soil) brings agriculture indoors, yielding higher production and faster-growing plants. In this lesson, students learn how biotechnological processes can yield real-world solutions.
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