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Resources for Running

Resources are the things we need to get a job done. Think
about running shoes, for example. In the United States,
more than 370 million pairs of shoes are sold each year.
Making these shoes requires the following resources:
• People to design the shoes, manufacture the
shoes’ components, and assemble the shoes.

• Capital, or money, to buy the raw materials and
pay the people who make the shoes.
• Time to complete the shoes’ design and manufacture.
• Information that will ensure the shoes are well suited
to people’s needs and are attractive to consumers.

• Energy to transport raw materials to manufacturing
plants, process the materials into shoes, and transport the
finished product.

• Materials to make the running shoes durable and
comfortable.
• Tools, such as machines for molding, stitching, and glu-
ing the shoes.
Every technological system involves the use of these seven
kinds of resources.

TEACHING RESOURCES
Teacher’s Resource Binder,
Ch. 5
Computerized Test Bank
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
• Describe how people’s
needs drive technology.
• Show how several categories
of resources are necessary
for the improvement of any
technology.
• Explain how various types of
renewable and nonrenew-
able energy sources are
needed for technological
systems to function.
• Illustrate why resources must
be appropriate and must be
selected very carefully in
order to optimize a system.
• Examine the impacts of tech-
nology.

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