Title: Explain the characteristics and scope of technology.
Course: Technology Foundations (21003-36) > Section: Exploring Technology Foundations

Explanation should include

- the meaning of STEM
- the fact that people use things from nature to both create and use technology to accomplish goals and satisfy needs
- the eight contexts/areas of technology
  - automation, computation, artificial intelligence and robotic technologies
  - manufacturing technologies
  - transportation and logistics technologies
  - energy and power technologies
  - information and communication technologies
  - construction of the built environment
  - medical and health-related technologies
  - agriculture and biotechnologies.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do science, technology, engineering, and mathematics differ?
- What do science, technology, engineering, and mathematics have in common?
- What are the ways in which technology evolves?