Unintended Consequences(p27)

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SPI 0807.T/E.3 Intended Unintended
Consequences
Unintended Consequences(p27)

• Unintended consequences are uses or results
  that engineers do not purposely include when
  designing some product or process
• Example Cell phones-One unintended consequence
  is wrecking you car while talking when driving.
• Other Example(s) Cell phone towers (see p27)

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RSM
SPI 0807.T/E.3 Intended Unintended
Consequences
Unintended Consequences(p27)

• Unintended consequences are uses or results
  that engineers do not purposely include when
  designing some product or process
• NOTE Unintended consequences are not always bad.
  Sometimes they are good!
• Example In WWII, engineers invented sonar to
  allow submarines to navigate underwater and
  destroy enemy ships. One unintended consequence
  is sonargrams for babies.

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Notes (Review)
SPI 0807.T/E.3 Intended Unintended
Consequences
1) Copy and fill in the concept map below (see
p520)
Intended Unintended Consequences
Cars
Unintended?
Intended?
Intended?
Unintended?
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SPI 0807.T/E.3 Intended Unintended
Consequences
1) Copy and fill in the concept map below (see
p520)
Intended Unintended Consequences
Video Games
Unintended?
Intended?
Intended?
Unintended?
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RSM
SPI 0807.T/E.3 Intended Unintended
Consequences

• (Foldable) Intended/Unintended Consequences
• Turn to page 515 in your science textbook.
• Follow the instructions at the bottom about how
  to make a double-door foldable.
• Label the two outside flaps as follows
• top flap Intended Consequences (p27)
• bottom flap Unintended Consequences (p27)
• 4) Write on the inside of these two flaps as
  follows
• inside of top flap2 facts about intended
  consequences
• inside of bottom flap 2 facts about unintended
  consequences
• 5) On the inside-middle of the paper list 4
  examples of unintended consequences with 4
  examples of modern technology

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