Introduction to Technology – The technological process

Technology is part of our lives, since the human being began to use tools.

The technological objects are created to satisfy a need. Any object that you can see is a technological object: a smartphone, a computer…. but also a chair, a pencil or a eraser.

To create a technological object we must follow the technological process. In this unit you will learn what is Technology and why is so important the technological process.

Download here the first unit: The Technological Process.

Download the activities of this unit: The Technological Process – Activities

Tools – Vocabulary

Click on the picture to study some of the tools that you are going to use at the workshop.

Once that you’ve learnt the name of the tools, you can do the following test.

 

Computers

In this activity you are going to learn a lot about computers: hardware, software, binary code, peripherals, drivers, operating systems and so on.

Electricity

Electric current can be defined as a flow of electrons, but there is much more to learn about electricity. In this activity you’ll find a lot of exercises concerning electricity. Enjoy it!

The workshop

In the following website you’ll find an exercise about the tools that you can find in the workshop. Clic on the picture to start:

Structures Test

Here you have a test with some of the concepts that you have learnt in the structures unit. It is made of 30 questions, very useful to check your knowledge about structures. Clic on the picture to start!

Structural elements

There are serveral types of structures that you already know (massive, vaulted, triangular, suspended, etc…), formed by different elements. You can review the main structural elements in the following flashcards:

 

Types of stress

When we talk about structures, stress is the internal tension that an element experience when it bears a load.

Remember that a load is a force that is applied to a structure, and it can be fixed or variable.

We classify stress by the deformation it produces. The main stresses are 5, and you can see them in the following flashcards:

Remember that each stress is related to a verb:

• Traction – Stretch
• Compression – Compress (or crush)
• Bending – Bend
• Shearing (or cutting) – Divide (or cut)
• Torsion – Twist