Today s electronic timing is called image tracing. It was first used in the 1993 Bobsled World Cup. Today s electronic timing is accurate to one-one hundredth of a second. In this introduction to computers, learn how computers are being used in games, simulations, the space program, medicine, and the Olympics. Olympic Distances Have students identify Olympia, Greece on a map and determine the approximate distance to Atlanta, Georgia.
Students can then graph the class results.
Understands major discoveries in science and technology, some of their social and economic effects, and the major scientists and inventors responsible for them. Understands the significance of the printing press, the computer, and electronic developments in communication and their impact on the spread of ideas. Understands the nature of scientific inquiry. The online curriculum support material for this program was written by Lewis Kindja, a computer and technology teacher with Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland. Tell us what you think of Discovery Channel School.