Objective: Determine the composition and sources for common items
Purpose: To understand the complexity in creating modern technology
Select one of the following topics
- Smart Phone Touch Screen
- Smart Phone Battery
- Chromebook Motherboard
- Your Shoes
- Your backback
- Your Thermos/Waterbottle
- McDonalds Big Mac
You have 40 minutes to research the answer to the following questions
- What are the components of the system?
- What are those components made of?
- Where does that material come from?
Follow-up discussion questions
- How much material was locally sourced (i.e. made of materials from w/in 300mi of the manufacturing site?)
- How do you think materials were transported to the manufacturing site?
- How much material is derived from renewable resources?
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