Technology is the most pervasive force in our society.
Today's' 6th graders come to school having experienced radio controlled cars, Nintendo and the Internet. They use technology - but do not have the necessary understanding of how we got all this technology, where we are going with it or how it affects them or their society. They have had science all through the elementary grades. The application of scientific concepts have often been mistakenly represented as science rather than technology. This is not unusual since even NASA technologists refer to themselves as scientists.