This is a PowerPoint that was created to support the Computer Science standard 2.13 about the Impacts of Computing and how the student will compare and contrast examples of how computing technology has changed and improved the way people live, work, and interact.

This cut-and-sort handout allows students to analyze items that are or are not examples of technology.
Technology is explained as anything made by people to help us.
Pictured items to sort include:
- scissors, pencil, glue, cell phone, laptop, desktop computer, people, tree, flower, vegetables, dog, sun

This lesson is best used with the slides found at https://goopenva.org/courses/what-is-technology.
The document provides an answer key and links to the slides, teacher lesson plan to accompany the slides, and additional resources. However, this handout can be used as a stand alone activity as well.

In this lesson students will think about the many uses of technology in their own daily lives. We will also discuss how technology has changed through the years. Next, we will discuss technology's purpose and how the goal of technology is to make our lives easier. A google slides presentation has been included to help explain these concepts. Activity: Students will get a chance to compare and contrast a task both using technology and doing the same task without technology. Students will compare the differences for sending a message using technology and sending that same message with pencil and paper.

This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation.    During this lesson, students will use a computing device to write a letter. 

What would kids today do without the internet? This lesson will take them “back in time” to learn how to research before the internet! This lesson will create a greater appreciation for the technology that we have today. Kids today just don’t know how easy they have it, not having to wait for dial up internet!

In this lesson, students will collaborate in groups to electronically communicate their findings from the Jamestown Outreach. Through this activity, they will explore how technology has evolved and improved over time for information dissemination, encouraging them to compare and contrast different communication methods throughout history.

Students will compare the technology of weather instruments long ago to weather instruments today. They will then make a weather vane and compare it to a weather vane connected with technology. 

This slide presentation looks at technology from a different perspective. Most often we view technology as something that is digital, but in this lesson we discover that technology is anything made by man that can help us - including computers, cell phones, scissors, glue, etc.
Students will be asked to decipher between technological items and non-technological items through a cut and sort (optional handout - link provided in slides), they will go on a classroom scavenger hunt to locate technological items, and they will write sentences about how their found items help us (documentation handout also included in slides).
The slides provide teacher notes and links to resources used.

Have fun exploring technology in your room!