Engineering Solutions

3 The Nature of Technology

  • Subchapter C
    • Issues in Technology
      • For Grades: 3-5
        • Learning Goal 5
          • Technologies often have drawbacks as well as benefits. A technology that helps some people or organisms may hurt others—either deliberately (as weapons can) or inadvertently (as pesticides can).
        • Learning Goal 6
          • Because of their ability to invent tools and processes, people have an enormous effect on the lives of other living things.