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Student Activity Sheet: "And I Quote...."


Discussion Key

Directions: Begin by reading page 1 of the Preface from the book Countdown to Flight! List below four technological breakthroughs that have happened since 1900 that most would not have thought would ever have happened. Explain why you think people thought they would never happen.

1. Technological Breakthrough: Sending people to the moon

Reason for Disbelief: We had just started to fly in 1903 so it would probably take another hundred or two hundred years before we could figure out how to rocket to the moon

2. Technological Breakthrough: Telephones in our cars

Reason for Disbelief: Telephones earlier had to be connected to wires. You couldn't put a phone attached to a wire in your car and drive around with it.

3. Technological Breakthrough: Laptop computers

Reason for Disbelief: Who could imagine that we would be able to communicate from a tiny portable computer.

4. Technological Breakthrough: Satellite dishes for television

Reason for Disbelief: Why would anyone want more than five TV stations anyway? We are all so far apart, how could we possibly communicate over such a long distance? What is a satellite anyway?


  
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