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Science and Technology: Understandings about science and technology Grades 5-8, page 166 Science and technology are reciprocal. Science helps drive technology,
as it addresses questions that demand more sophisticated instruments and
provides principles for better instrumentation and technique. Technology
is essential to science, because it provides instruments and techniques
that enable observations of objects and phenomena that are otherwise unobservable
due to factors, such as quantity, distance, location, size, and speed.
Technology also provides tools for investigations, inquiry, and analysis.
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Benchmark 3A The Nature of Technology:
Technology and Science
Grades 6-8, page 46
Engineers, architects, and others who engage in design and technology
use scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. But they usually
have to take human values and limitations into account as well.
Benchmark 4A The Physical Setting: The
Universe
Grades 9-12, page 65
Increasingly sophisticated technology is used to learn about the universe.
Visual, radio, and x-ray telescopes collect information from across the
entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves; computers handle an avalanche
of data and increasingly complicated computations to interpret them; space
probes send back data and materials from the remote parts of the solar
system; and accelerators give subatomic particles energies that simulate
conditions in the stars and in the early history of the universe before
stars formed.