This lesson for students in grades 3-5 was developed by VonWaldhe at 2017 Teacher-in-Residence Program at Chatham Marconi Maritime Center.

In this lesson plan students will describe how a network is made up of a variety of components and identify the common components (e.g., links, nodes, networking devices). They will then use informational text to provide examples of improvements to existing technologies and the development of new technologies. This lesson aims to show that technology is any modification of the natural or designed world done to fulfill human needs or wants.