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Foundations of Technology

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Unit 3 Design Group: Agriculture & Transportation

Appalachian Trail Activity

Scenario

You and three-four of your friends decide to hike part of the Appalachian Trail, the
whole trail is a total of 2175-mile trail running from Georgia to Maine. Your team
will be dropped off in New York and picked up at Harpers Ferry. The team will be
starting when school ends for the year in June. Your team will consist of an expert
in each of the following subjects on the trip:
- Energy & Power
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Information & Communication
- Agriculture & Transportation
- Medicine & First Aid

Agriculture &
Transportation
Background

Transportation plays a vital role in the operation of agricultural industries, which

includes a combination of businesses that use a wide array of products and
systems to produce, process, and distribute food, fiber, fuel, chemical, and other
useful products.

Problem

Each person is responsible for making sure that their Hiking Team is well prepared
for this trip by knowing their own subject and packing the resources needed for
this trip within their subject. Your fearless and supportive leader/teacher will be
meeting you ONCE with a ration of supplies that you come up with within the
weight limits.
Your Design Group is in charge of informing the rest of the teams about the
knowledge you gained of Agriculture & Transportation.

Procedure

Materials

1. Research your topic from the information given

2. Now that you are an expert in your topic access your scenario what
information and materials would you need within your Hiking Team. Create
a list neatly compiled and complete list.
3. Complete the Vocabulary Crossword
4. Create Vocabulary Cards
a. Front: Vocabulary word
b. Back: Definition WITH a chart/picture/memory helper
5. Design an activity that will only take 30 minutes maximum to relay the
information to the rest of the class. ALL students must be able to pass the
Manufacturing Quiz with the information given from your activity.
Computer w/Internet Access
Calculator
Cardstock

Agriculture & Transportation Vocabulary Words

Agriculture
Transportation Systems

Grain Elevator

Agriculture & Transportation Quiz

Combine
Conveyors

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Foundations of Technology

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Unit 3 Design Group: Agriculture & Transportation

Selected Response Items

1. Agricultural products include:
1. Buildings, food, fiber, and fuel
2. Food, fiber, fuel, and chemicals
3. Fiber, food, chemicals, and
clothing
2. Agricultural businesses must do three things
1. Produce, process, and market
2. Process, manufacture, market
3.
4.
5.
6.

4. Buildings, clothing, food, and

fuel

3. Manufacture, distribute, and

market
4. Produce, process, and distribute
The role of transportation in industries such as agriculture is
1. Vital
3. Somewhat important
2. Very important
4. Not important
When designing solutions to technological problems, engineers use the
1. Scientific method
3. Engineering design process
2. Scientific design theory
4. Technological theory of design
Crops grown on a farm are considered what type of resource?
1. Exhaustible
3. Nonrenewable
2. Renewable
4. Reusable
Agriculture can help the transportation industry reduce its dependency on foreign energy
sources by
1. Hiring cowboys to herd cattle to
3. Providing more milk to transport to
stockyards
creamery
2. Not shipping produce cross
4. Producing grain for biofuels
country

Brief Constructed Response Item

Students are expected to select two steps from the process below and reflect on, and write a one
paragraph response. Students should provide examples to clarify their response.
1. Agriculture includes a combination of businesses that use a wide array of products and
systems to produce, process, and distribute food, fiber, fuel, chemical, and other useful
products. Describe the agricultural industry in your local community. What types of
resources are produced and how are those resources transported to the marketplace?
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2. Transportation plays a vital role in the operation of other technologies, such as
manufacturing, construction, communication, health and safety, and agriculture. Describe
the transportation process used in the agriculture industry.
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Brief Constructed Response Item Rubric
Category

Below Average

Average

Excellent

Response demonstrates an implied, Response is written technically and Response is written technically and precisely. The
partial, or superficial understanding precisely. The answer
answer demonstrates understanding of the topic
Understanding
of the text and/or the question.
demonstrates understanding of the and cites specific examples.
topic.
Focus

Response lacks transitional

information to show the
relationship between the content
and the support to the question.

Response addresses the question, Response addresses the question, cites specific
includes pertinent information, and examples, includes pertinent information, and
remains focused on the topic.
remains focused on the topic. Details are clearly
stated and do not detract from the response.

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Response uses minimal supporting Response uses expressed and/or

Response uses clear and concise examples as
Use of Related
information to clarify or extend
implied supporting information that well as supporting information that clarifies or
Information
meaning.
clarifies or extends meaning.
extends meaning.