Mr.

King
Technology Design 6, 7, & 8
Weeks #1-20
Spring 2015

Technology Research Project

Objectives:
1. Conduct research, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from
a variety of online sources and media.
2. Use digital tools to manage activities in the development of your technology research projects.
3. Think critically in the decisions of who, what, where, when, and why to include within your
technology research projects.
4. Create original works as a means of demonstrating higher order of Blooms Taxonomy
metacognitive thinking.
5. Present your work through a picture collage, a concept bubble map, an expository research
paper, a PowerPoint presentation, and a self-determined creative technology project option.
6. Think critically and articulate the impact of technology (various diverse technologies) on your
life, society, the environment, and human civilization.
Statement of Inquiry: Throughout history, mankind has created and developed many different
technologies with which to control, adapt to, and modify the surrounding environment and
sustain civilizations from the world around him.
Inquiry Questions: (Select one technology to answer these questions in each Project Task.)
1

What is your technology? What are its uses? From where did it originate, how did it
develop in the past, where is it now in present time, and what is its future?

There are helpful benefits and contributions made by each of these technologies to
humanity, society, civilization, and the environment. In the case of your selected
technology for this project, what are they?

There are also ways in which each of these technologies can be harmful or dangerous and
can detract from and/or possibly even destroy in different ways humanity, society,
civilization, and the environment. In the case of your selected technology for this project,
what are they?

5 Project Tasks (You will be working individually or in groups of 2 or 3 students each):

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4.)

A Picture Collage.
A Concept Bubble Map.
An Expository Research Paper using MS Word.
A MS PowerPoint presentation.
5.) The opportunity to design, develop and create your own project which goes beyond the
scope and limits of the first 4 tasks given here!