Reflecting Ask your partner or other people in the group some of these questions. What's Happening Technology is so common in our everyday lives that we often don't realize all the technologies that surround us. Technology is not just computers, televisions, and VCR's, but also many of the more simple inventions that led up to what we view as technology today. Technology starts with someone working on an idea to make something different or using a scientific principle to make something new to meet a need or solve a consumer problem. This invention may then become part of our everyday lives.
More Challenges Keep a scrapbook or bulletin board of newspaper and magazine articles on technology.
Name or list examples of technology found in your home.