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Technology, 5th Edition


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By: R. Thomas Wright

ISBN: 978-1-59070-718-0
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: © 2008
Subject: Technology Education
Grade Level: 9-12
Retail Price: $62.00
School Price: $46.50

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Text 768 978-1-59070-718-0 $62.00$46.50
Student Activity Manual 140 978-1-59070-720-3 $17.28$12.96
* Teacher's Wraparound Edition 864 978-1-59070-719-7 $88.00$66.00*
* Teacher’s Manual 342 978-1-59070-721-0 $80.00$60.00*
* Teacher's Resource CD 978-1-59070-723-4 $260.00$195.00*
* Teacher’s Resource Binder 382 978-1-59070-722-7 $200.00$150.00*
Instructor's PowerPoint Presentations Individual License 2688 slides 978-1-59070-805-7 $240.00$180.00
Instructor's PowerPoint Presentations Site License 2688 slides 978-1-59070-806-4 $600.00$450.00
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Previous Edition
Technology, 4th Edition


Description


The latest edition of Technology will help students realize how technology affects people and the world in which we live. Numerous illustrations and easy-to-read text enable understanding of how people use technology and why technological systems work the way they do. Student-friendly features, such as Tomorrow’s Technology Today, Technology Explained, Connections to Technology, and Career Corners, provide numerous practical examples of the impacts of technology on our world. This edition of the book has a broadened scope, with information on automation and robotics, digital photography, digital signals, and job skills and employment. The book is fully correlated to the Standards for Technological Literacy.

Table of Contents


  1. Technology: A Dynamic, Human System
  2. Technology as a System
  3. Types of Technological Systems
  4. Inputs to Technological Systems
  5. Technological Processes
  6. Outputs and Feedback and Control
  7. Production Tools and Their Safe Use
  8. Measurement Systems and Tools and Their Role in Technology
  9. The Problem-Solving and Design Process
10. Developing Design Solutions
11. Evaluating Design Solutions
12. Communicating Design Solutions
13. Using Technology to Produce Artifacts
14. The Types of Material Resources and How They Are Obtained
15. Processing Resources
16. Manufacturing Products
17. Constructing Structures
18. Using and Servicing Products and Structures
19. Using Technology to Communicate
20. Printed Graphic Communication
21. Photographic Communication
22. Telecommunication
23. Computer and Internet Communication
24. Using Technology to Transport
25. Transportation Vehicles
26. Operating Transportation Systems
27. Energy: The Foundation of Technology
28. Energy Conversion Systems
29. Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies
30. Food-Processing Technologies
31. Medical and Health Technologies
32. Organizing a Technological Enterprise
33. Operating Technological Enterprises
34. Using and Assessing Technology
35. Technology: A Societal View
36. Technology: A Personal View

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Text
   sample Introduction (PDF, 327 KB)
   sample Chapter 10 (PDF, 410 KB)
   sample Chapter 17 (PDF, 812 KB)
Instructor's PowerPoint Presentations Individual License
   sample Chapter 1 (PPS, 1.76 MB)
   sample Chapter 4 (PPS, 1.92 MB)
Companion Web Site
   sample View Site (g-wlearning.com, Technology Education)
  Note: Sample file quality has been reduced to allow for Internet streaming and viewing.

Correlations

Alabama
   PDF Engineering Systems (PDF, 106 KB)
Arkansas
   Principles of Engineering, Grades 9-12
Florida
   PDF Technology Studies I (PDF, 149 KB)
Idaho
Kentucky
   Technology Concepts, Grades 9-12
   Impacts of Contemporary Technology, Grades 9-12
   Conceptual Engineering Technology, Grades 9-12
Louisiana
   PDF General Technology Education, Grades 9-12 (PDF, 144 KB)
Maryland
   PDF Maryland Technology Education Voluntary State Curriculum Correlation (PDF, 225 KB)
Mississippi
   PDF Technology Applications I (PDF, 91 KB)
   PDF Technology Applications II (PDF, 91 KB)
New Mexico
   PDF General Technology Education (PDF, 206 KB)
Oklahoma
   PDF Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) (PDF, 42 KB)
South Carolina
   PDF Industrial Technology Education 1, 2, 3 (PDF, 28 KB)
Utah
   Foundations of Technology
  Note: Correlation files may not be available for all listed courses.
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