Henry Ford (Week 3- MONDAY)

Henry Ford is famous for making cars easier for most people to buy. He did this by producing the cars using an assembly line.
Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm. He worked on the farm when he
was young, but he soon discovered that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked, then putting them back together again.
He worked on watches a lot, and ended up helping many people fix their watches. In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he moved to
Detroit to start working with machines, though he did come home and work on the farm a little, too.
Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888 and worked on a sawmill. He eventually became an engineer. Ford worked for the
Edison Illuminating Company and even got to meet Thomas Edison! Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for his
horseless carriage, powered by a motor. Ford’s gasoline-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle.
He sold the Quadricycle and started his own company to continue his work making vehicles. He did not stay with the first
company for very many years, but eventually started the Ford Motor Company. He spent many years developing cars, which were
made only a few at a time.
Ford was not the first person to create a car, but he was the one who began to make them accessible to a lot of people in the
United States. His “Model T” car, released in 1908, was easy to drive and to repair, which made many people want one. He needed to
make a lot of cars very quickly. His company, Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would
move through the line, and each worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on the steering wheel, while at a different spot
on the line, another worker put on tires. Every Model T was painted black. The company could make many cars at a time this way,
which made them cheaper to produce. In addition to using the assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his
workers fair wages. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and making cars today.
1. What adjective would you use to describe Henry Ford? Why?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does “accessible” mean in the 5th paragraph? How do you know?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why do you think making cars on an assembly line is cheaper than having groups of 3 or 4 people putting together one whole car at
a time?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. If each paragraph had a heading, the heading for the 2nd paragraph could be “Ford’s Early Life.” Create a heading for the 5 th
paragraph.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What is the moral lesson in the story? _____________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary of the Day

1. siblings - A sibling is your brother or sister.
2. sawmill – A mill for dressing logs and lumber.
3. carriage - A carriage is a vehicle with wheels that's usually pulled by horses. In some cities, you can go for a carriage ride through
the park.
4. accessible - Accessible can mean easy to get to. Able to be reached or entered.
5. steering - Steering is the control of the direction of locomotion or the components that enable its control.

Answers:
1. Answers will vary, but can include inventive, industrious, hard-working, entrepreneurial.
2. Accessible le means able to be easily obtained or used. Ford was the one who started making cars in a more affordable so
more people could buy a car.
3. I think it’s cheaper to make cars on an assembly line that in groups of people, because it’s faster. Each worker concentrates
on their small part, so they are better and faster at that particular part of the car.
4. Answers will vary, but appropriate answers could be: A car for the People or Ford Motor Company.
5. Answers will vary.
 Henry Ford
Henry Ford is famous for making cars easier for most people to buy. He did this by producing the cars using an assembly line.

Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm. He worked on the farm when he was young, but
he soon discovered that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked, then putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot,
and ended up helping many people fix their watches. In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he moved to Detroit to start working with machines, though
he did come home and work on the farm a little, too.

Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888, and worked on a sawmill. He eventually became an engineer. Ford worked for the Edison
Illuminating Company and even got to meet Thomas Edison! Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for his horseless carriage,
powered by a motor. Ford’s gasoline-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle.

He sold the Quadricycle and started his own company to continue his work making vehicles. He did not stay with the first company for very
many years, but eventually started the Ford Motor Company. He spent many years developing cars, which were made only a few at a time.

Ford was not the first person to create a car, but he was the one who began to make them accessible to a lot of people in the United States.
His “Model T” car, released in 1908, was easy to drive and to repair, which made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very
quickly. His company, Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each
worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on the steering wheel, while at a different spot on the line, another worker put on tires. Every
Model T was painted black. The company could make many cars at a time this way, which made them cheaper to produce. In addition to using the
assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his workers fair wages. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and
making cars today.

1. What adjective would you use to describe Henry Ford? Why?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What does “accessible” mean in the 5th paragraph? How do you know?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Why do you think making cars on an assembly line is cheaper than having groups of 3 or 4 people putting together one whole car at a time?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. If each paragraph had a heading, the heading for the 2nd paragraph could be “Ford’s Early Life.” Create a heading for the 5th paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is the moral lesson in the story? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Henry Ford
Henry Ford is famous for making cars easier for most people to buy. He did this by producing the cars using an assembly line.

Henry Ford was born in 1863 in Michigan. He had 4 siblings, and his family owned a farm. He worked on the farm when he was young, but
he soon discovered that he loved taking things apart to see how they worked, then putting them back together again. He worked on watches a lot,
and ended up helping many people fix their watches. In 1879, when he was 16 years old, he moved to Detroit to start working with machines, though
he did come home and work on the farm a little, too.

Ford got married to Clara Bryant in 1888 and worked on a sawmill. He eventually became an engineer. Ford worked for the Edison
Illuminating Company and even got to meet Thomas Edison! Edison encouraged him to keep working on his plans for his horseless carriage,
powered by a motor. Ford’s gasoline-powered horseless carriage was called the Quadricycle.

He sold the Quadricycle and started his own company to continue his work making vehicles. He did not stay with the first company for very
many years, but eventually started the Ford Motor Company. He spent many years developing cars, which were made only a few at a time.

Ford was not the first person to create a car, but he was the one who began to make them accessible to a lot of people in the United States.
His “Model T” car, released in 1908, was easy to drive and to repair, which made many people want one. He needed to make a lot of cars very
quickly. His company, Ford Motor Company, hired skilled workers to work on an assembly line. The car would move through the line, and each
worker had a job along the line. One worker might put on the steering wheel, while at a different spot on the line, another worker put on tires. Every
Model T was painted black. The company could make many cars at a time this way, which made them cheaper to produce. In addition to using the
assembly line to produce cars, Ford was also known for paying his workers fair wages. Henry Ford died in 1947, but his company is still around and
making cars today.

1. What adjective would you use to describe Henry Ford? Why?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What does “accessible” mean in the 5th paragraph? How do you know?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why do you think making cars on an assembly line is cheaper than having groups of 3 or 4 people putting together one whole car at a time?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. If each paragraph had a heading, the heading for the 2nd paragraph could be “Ford’s Early Life.” Create a heading for the 5th paragraph.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is the moral lesson in the story? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Space Based Astronomy (Week 3 - Tuesday)

If you go to the country, far from city lights, you can see about 3,000 stars on a clear night. If your eyes were bigger, you could see many
more stars. With a pair of binoculars, an optical device that effectively enlarges the pupil of your eye by about 30 times, the number of stars you can
see increases to the tens of thousands. With a medium-sized telescope with a light-collecting mirror 30 centimeters in diameter, you can see
hundreds of thousands of stars. With a large observatory telescope, millions of stars become visible.

It would seem that when it comes to observing the universe, the larger the instrument, the better. This is true up to a point, but there are
limits—limits not imposed by technology but by nature itself.

Surrounding Earth is a life-sustaining atmosphere that stands between our eyes and the radiation that falls upon Earth from outer space.
This radiation is comprised of a very broad spectrum of energies and wavelengths. Collectively, they are referred to as the electromagnetic
spectrum. They range from radio and microwave radiation on the low energy (long wavelength) end through infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x-rays to
gamma rays on the high energy (short wavelength) end. Gases and other components of our atmosphere distort, filter, and block most of this
radiation permitting only a partial picture, primarily visible radiation and some radio waves, to reach Earth’s surface. Although many things can be
learned about our universe by studying it from the surface of Earth, the story is incomplete. To view celestial objects over the whole range of the
electromagnetic spectrum, it is essential to climb above the atmosphere into outer space.

From its earliest days, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used the emerging technology of rockets to explore
the universe. By lofting telescopes and other scientific instruments above the veil of Earth’s atmosphere, NASA has delivered a treasure house of
information to astronomers, leading them to rethink their most fundamental ideas about what the universe is, how it came to be, how it functions, and
what it is likely to become.

1. Why do you think city lights would prevent you from seeing stars? ______________________________________________________________

2. What do you need to see hundreds of thousand of stars?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What does the Earth’s atmosphere do to sustain life?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4.What do you think the phrase treasure house is synonymous with in this story?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. While the short story never directly provides a definition for spaced based astronomy, what do you think it is?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary of the Day

1. spectrum - the band of colors formed by a beam of light, like a rainbow. In physics, it’s a word that describes the distribution of
something, like energy or atomic particles.
2. wavelengths - distance between corresponding points of two consecutive waves
3. distort - Distort means to twist out of shape to look strange or unnatural
4. astronomers - A scientist who studies the objects in the sky, including planets, galaxies, black holes, and stars
5. binoculars - Binoculars are like a telescope for both eyes at the same time — they make it possible to see distant objects more
clearly. Sailors, hikers, tourists, and soldiers all occasionally use binoculars

Answers:
1. The city lights are too bright for us to see the night sky, so you won’t be able to see the stars in the city.
2. You can see hundreds of thousands of starts with a medium-sized telescope.
3. The Earth’s atmosphere blocks harmful radiation to sustain life on Earth.
4. Treasure house is synonymous with a wealth of information in this short story.
5. Space based astronomy is defined as the use of telescopes launched into space to explore the universe.
 Space Based Astronomy (Wednesday)

If you go to the country, far from city lights, you can see about 3,000 stars on a clear night. If your eyes were bigger, you could see many
more stars. With a pair of binoculars, an optical device that effectively enlarges the pupil of your eye by about 30 times, the number of stars you can
see increases to the tens of thousands. With a medium-sized telescope with a light-collecting mirror 30 centimeters in diameter, you can see
hundreds of thousands of stars. With a large observatory telescope, millions of stars become visible.

It would seem that when it comes to observing the universe, the larger the instrument, the better. This is true up to a point, but there are
limits—limits not imposed by technology but by nature itself.

Surrounding Earth is a life-sustaining atmosphere that stands between our eyes and the radiation that falls upon Earth from outer space.
This radiation is comprised of a very broad spectrum of energies and wavelengths. Collectively, they are referred to as the electromagnetic
spectrum. They range from radio and microwave radiation on the low energy (long wavelength) end through infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x-rays to
gamma rays on the high energy (short wavelength) end. Gases and other components of our atmosphere distort, filter, and block most of this
radiation permitting only a partial picture, primarily visible radiation and some radio waves, to reach Earth’s surface. Although many things can be
learned about our universe by studying it from the surface of Earth, the story is incomplete. To view celestial objects over the whole range of the
electromagnetic spectrum, it is essential to climb above the atmosphere into outer space.

From its earliest days, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used the emerging technology of rockets to explore
the universe. By lofting telescopes and other scientific instruments above the veil of Earth’s atmosphere, NASA has delivered a treasure house of
information to astronomers, leading them to rethink their most fundamental ideas about what the universe is, how it came to be, how it functions, and
what it is likely to become.

3. Why do you think city lights would prevent you from seeing stars? ______________________________________________________________

4. What do you need to see hundreds of thousand of stars?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What does the Earth’s atmosphere do to sustain life?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4.What do you think the phrase treasure house is synonymous with in this story?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. While the short story never directly provides a definition for spaced based astronomy, what do you think it is?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Space Based Astronomy

If you go to the country, far from city lights, you can see about 3,000 stars on a clear night. If your eyes were bigger, you could see many
more stars. With a pair of binoculars, an optical device that effectively enlarges the pupil of your eye by about 30 times, the number of stars you can
see increases to the tens of thousands. With a medium-sized telescope with a light-collecting mirror 30 centimeters in diameter, you can see
hundreds of thousands of stars. With a large observatory telescope, millions of stars become visible.

It would seem that when it comes to observing the universe, the larger the instrument, the better. This is true up to a point, but there are
limits—limits not imposed by technology but by nature itself.

Surrounding Earth is a life-sustaining atmosphere that stands between our eyes and the radiation that falls upon Earth from outer space.
This radiation is comprised of a very broad spectrum of energies and wavelengths. Collectively, they are referred to as the electromagnetic
spectrum. They range from radio and microwave radiation on the low energy (long wavelength) end through infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x-rays to
gamma rays on the high energy (short wavelength) end. Gases and other components of our atmosphere distort, filter, and block most of this
radiation permitting only a partial picture, primarily visible radiation and some radio waves, to reach Earth’s surface. Although many things can be
learned about our universe by studying it from the surface of Earth, the story is incomplete. To view celestial objects over the whole range of the
electromagnetic spectrum, it is essential to climb above the atmosphere into outer space.

From its earliest days, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has used the emerging technology of rockets to explore
the universe. By lofting telescopes and other scientific instruments above the veil of Earth’s atmosphere, NASA has delivered a treasure house of
information to astronomers, leading them to rethink their most fundamental ideas about what the universe is, how it came to be, how it functions, and
what it is likely to become.

5. Why do you think city lights would prevent you from seeing stars? ______________________________________________________________

6. What do you need to see hundreds of thousand of stars?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What does the Earth’s atmosphere do to sustain life?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4.What do you think the phrase treasure house is synonymous with in this story?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. While the short story never directly provides a definition for spaced based astronomy, what do you think it is?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Horses (Week 3 - Wednesday)

Horses are beautiful creatures. They can be different colors, and can run quickly. People like to watch horses because they are strong and
powerful.

Horses are mammals. Mammals are animals that have hair or fur, are warm-blooded, and usually give birth to live young. The mother
horse generally has one baby in the spring, and feeds the baby milk. Horses have long legs, and big eyes that can see almost all the way around
them. They can walk, trot, gallop and jump.

Young horses that are one year old or younger are called foals. A young female horse is called a filly, and a young male horse is called a
colt. After 4 years, a horse is considered an adult. Many people think that a pony is a young horse, but that is incorrect. A pony is a type of horse that
does not grow very large.

Horses can live up to 20 or 25 years. Sometimes people can tell how old a horse is by looking at its teeth! They generally sleep standing
up, so that if a predator approaches, they can run away quickly. Horses only need about three hours of sleep per day! Their hooves need to be taken
care of. Horse hooves are like our fingernails, which need to be trimmed. If a horse is doing a lot of walking on hard ground, people put horseshoes
on them, then take off the horseshoes when the hooves need trimming. New horseshoes are then put on.

For food, horses eat foods such as grass, hay, oats, corn, apples, and carrots. They are herbivores, meaning they do not eat other
animals. Their stomachs are small, so they need small, frequent feedings.

There are wild horses, but many people have horses as pets, too. They ride the horses and may teach the horses tricks. When people first
started to take horses as pets, they were just used for work. The horses would pull carriages so people could ride places, or plows so the farmers
could more easily tend their fields. Horses were also used to move goods from place to place, by carrying objects on their backs. Some horses now
work as therapy horses. These horses help people with disabilities become more calm and comfortable, or work muscles they might not otherwise
be able to work.

1. What is the difference between a horse’s diet and a human diet? _________________________________________________________
2.What does “foal” mean in the 3rd paragraph? How do you know? __________________________________________________________
3.The first paragraph includes some opinions about horses. Highlight the opinions. Replace them with facts that would still make sense in that
paragraph?___________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Did you have any misconceptions (something you thought you knew, but found out to be incorrect after reading the short story) about horses?
What were they? ______________________________________________________________________________________________
5.What is the moral lesson of the story? _________________________________________________________________________________
When these strong creatures are treated with care, they make wonderful companions. What else do you know about horses?

Vocabulary of the Day

1. Creatures - any large or small living thing that can move independently.
2. Predators - an animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals.
3. Approaches- to come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount.
4. Hooves – feet of a horse, A hoof is made of keratin, just like your fingernails, but it tends to be thicker and harder since it has to bear the
weight of the animal.
5. Companions- A companion is one who serves as a friend or partner in something. Whether it’s travel or dinner or card-playing, your
companion is the one who does it with you.

Answers:
1. Horses eat foods such as grass, hay, oats, corn, apples, and carrots. Human don’t grass or hay, but we do eat grains,
fruits, vegetables, and meat. The main difference is that horses don’t eat meat.
2. Foal means a young horse less than one year old. Young horses that are one year old or younger are called foals.
3. Horses are beautiful creatures. – Horses are creatures that many believe are beautiful. People like to watch horses
because they are strong and powerful. – Horses are strong and powerful.
4. Answers will vary.
5. Answers will vary.
 Horses
Horses are beautiful creatures. They can be different colors, and can run quickly. People like to watch horses because they are strong and
powerful.
Horses are mammals. Mammals are animals that have hair or fur, are warm-blooded, and usually give birth to live young. The mother
horse generally has one baby in the spring, and feeds the baby milk. Horses have long legs, and big eyes that can see almost all the way around
them. They can walk, trot, gallop and jump.
Young horses that are one year old or younger are called foals. A young female horse is called a filly, and a young male horse is called a
colt. After 4 years, a horse is considered an adult. Many people think that a pony is a young horse, but that is incorrect. A pony is a type of horse that
does not grow very large.
Horses can live up to 20 or 25 years. Sometimes people can tell how old a horse is by looking at its teeth! They generally sleep standing
up, so that if a predator approaches, they can run away quickly. Horses only need about three hours of sleep per day! Their hooves need to be taken
care of. Horse hooves are like our fingernails, which need to be trimmed. If a horse is doing a lot of walking on hard ground, people put horseshoes
on them, then take off the horseshoes when the hooves need trimming. New horseshoes are then put on.
For food, horses eat foods such as grass, hay, oats, corn, apples, and carrots. They are herbivores, meaning they do not eat other
animals. Their stomachs are small, so they need small, frequent feedings.
There are wild horses, but many people have horses as pets, too. They ride the horses and may teach the horses tricks. When people first
started to take horses as pets, they were just used for work. The horses would pull carriages so people could ride places, or plows so the farmers
could more easily tend their fields. Horses were also used to move goods from place to place, by carrying objects on their backs. Some horses now
work as therapy horses. These horses help people with disabilities become more calm and comfortable, or work muscles they might not otherwise
be able to work.
When these strong creatures are treated with care, they make wonderful companions. What else do you know about horses?
1. What is the difference between a horse’s diet and a human diet? _________________________________________________________
2.What does “foal” mean in the 3rd paragraph? How do you know? __________________________________________________________
3.The first paragraph includes some opinions about horses. Highlight the opinions. Replace them with facts that would still make sense in that
paragraph?___________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Did you have any misconceptions (something you thought you knew, but found out to be incorrect after reading the short story) about horses?
What were they? ______________________________________________________________________________________________
5.What is the moral lesson of the story? _________________________________________________________________________________

Horses
Horses are beautiful creatures. They can be different colors, and can run quickly. People like to watch horses because they are strong and
powerful.
Horses are mammals. Mammals are animals that have hair or fur, are warm-blooded, and usually give birth to live young. The mother
horse generally has one baby in the spring, and feeds the baby milk. Horses have long legs, and big eyes that can see almost all the way around
them. They can walk, trot, gallop and jump.
Young horses that are one year old or younger are called foals. A young female horse is called a filly, and a young male horse is called a
colt. After 4 years, a horse is considered an adult. Many people think that a pony is a young horse, but that is incorrect. A pony is a type of horse that
does not grow very large.
Horses can live up to 20 or 25 years. Sometimes people can tell how old a horse is by looking at its teeth! They generally sleep standing
up, so that if a predator approaches, they can run away quickly. Horses only need about three hours of sleep per day! Their hooves need to be taken
care of. Horse hooves are like our fingernails, which need to be trimmed. If a horse is doing a lot of walking on hard ground, people put horseshoes
on them, then take off the horseshoes when the hooves need trimming. New horseshoes are then put on.
For food, horses eat foods such as grass, hay, oats, corn, apples, and carrots. They are herbivores, meaning they do not eat other
animals. Their stomachs are small, so they need small, frequent feedings.
There are wild horses, but many people have horses as pets, too. They ride the horses and may teach the horses tricks. When people first
started to take horses as pets, they were just used for work. The horses would pull carriages so people could ride places, or plows so the farmers
could more easily tend their fields. Horses were also used to move goods from place to place, by carrying objects on their backs. Some horses now
work as therapy horses. These horses help people with disabilities become more calm and comfortable, or work muscles they might not otherwise
be able to work.
When these strong creatures are treated with care, they make wonderful companions. What else do you know about horses?
1. What is the difference between a horse’s diet and a human diet? _________________________________________________________
2.What does “foal” mean in the 3rd paragraph? How do you know? __________________________________________________________
3.The first paragraph includes some opinions about horses. Highlight the opinions. Replace them with facts that would still make sense in that
paragraph?___________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Did you have any misconceptions (something you thought you knew, but found out to be incorrect after reading the short story) about horses?
What were they? ______________________________________________________________________________________________
5.What is the moral lesson of the story? _________________________________________________________________________________
 DRONES (Week 3 - Thursday )

A drone, in a technological context, is an unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Essentially, a drone is a flying robot. The aircraft may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their
embedded systems working in conjunctions with Global Positioning system (GPS). UAVs have most often been associated with the military but they
are also used for search and rescue, surveillance, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring and firefighting, among other things.

More recently, the unmanned aircraft have come into consideration for a number of commercial applications.

In late 2013, Amazon announced a plan to use drones for delivery in the not-too-distant future. Personal drones are also becoming
increasingly popular, often for drone-based photography.

Other applications include drone surveillance and drone journalism, because the unmanned flying vehicles can often access locations that
would be impossible for a human to get to.

In late 2012 Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, retired to dedicate himself to his personal drones company, 3D Robotics.
Personal drones are currently a hobbyist's item most often used for aerial photography, but the market and potential applications are both expected
to expand rapidly.

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing regulations for the operation of unmanned aircraft.

Apart from what they do for the military, drones have already proven themselves capable sheep herders, delivery boys, tour guides,
filmmakers, archaeologists, and —possibly-spies. Proponents are eager to point out the many ways they're going to make our lives better.

"Really, this technology is an extra tool to help an industry be more effective," says Gretchen West, the executive vice president for the
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

"With precision agriculture, for example, it can take pictures of fields so farmers can identify problems they wouldn't necessarily see
walking through the fields. In law enforcement, you could find a child lost in the woods more easily than walking through a field, particularly if there's
bad weather or treacherous ground." While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage
around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to commercial activity, many countries have strict limitations.

1. What is a drone?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How useful is a drone to a country?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Apart from military, what are the other things that drones are capable of doing?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What help can drones do in agriculture?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. If you were given a choice would you like to use a drone for surveillance purposes? Why?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary of the Day

1. Autonomously - Autonomous describes things that function separately or independently. Once you move out of your parents'
house and get your own job, you will be an autonomous member of the family.
2. Embedded - The adjective embedded describes something that is encased in a surrounding substance, also means to insert as
part of a whole.
3. Surveillance - Many times, a person suspected of something illegal by the authorities is placed under surveillance, meaning he or
she is closely watched to see if their suspicions are well-founded.
4. Journalism - Working for a radio or TV news show, a magazine, a newspaper, or a news-related website would all be considered
journalism. Those jobs might include reporting, writing, editing, photography, or documentary film making.
5. Archaeologists - An archaeologist is a scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts.
6. Proponents - a person who speaks publicly in support of a particular idea or plan of action.
7. Treacherous - Treacherous means either not trusted or dangerous. A treacherous road might be icy or otherwise likely to cause a
car accident. A treacherous friend will betray you.

Answers:
1. A drone, in a technological context, is an unmanned aircraft.
2. Drone is useful to a country for a variety of reasons. In military for example, this can perform a lot of things. Drones can be used
to monitor borders and prevent illegal crossings. (Answers will vary here)
3. Apart from military , drone can be utilized for search and rescue, surveillance, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring and
firefighting.
 4. In agriculture, drones can monitor and take pictures of fields so farmers can identify problems they wouldn't necessarily see
walking through the fields.
5. Answers will vary.

DRONES

A drone, in a technological context, is an unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Essentially, a drone is a flying robot. The aircraft may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their
embedded systems working in conjunctions with GPS. UAVs have most often been associated with the military but they are also used for search and
rescue, surveillance, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring and firefighting , among other things.
More recently, the unmanned aircraft have come into consideration for a number of commercial applications.
In late 2013, Amazon announced a plan to use drones for delivery in the not-too-distant future. Personal drones are also becoming
increasingly popular, often for drone-based photography.
Other applications include drone surveillance and drone journalism, because the unmanned flying vehicles can often access locations that
would be impossible for a human to get to.
In late 2012 Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, retired to dedicate himself to his personal drones company, 3D Robotics.
Personal drones are currently a hobbyist's item most often used for aerial photography, but the market and potential applications are both expected
to expand rapidly.
In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing regulations for the operation of unmanned aircraft.
Apart from what they do for the military, drones have already proven themselves capable sheep herders, delivery boys, tour guides,
filmmakers, archaeologists, and —possibly-spies. Proponents are eager to point out the many ways they're going to make our lives better.
"Really, this technology is an extra tool to help an industry be more effec-tive," says Gretchen West, the executive vice president for the
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).
"With precision agriculture, for example, it can take pictures of fields so farmers can identify problems they wouldn't necessarily see
walking through the fields.In law enforcement, you could find a child lost in the woods more easily than walking through a field, particularly if there's
bad weather or treacherous ground." While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage
around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to commercial activity, many countries have strict limitations.
1. What is a drone?
2. How useful is a drone to a country?
3. Apart from military, what are the other things that drones are capable of doing?
4. What help can drones do in agriculture?
5. If you were given a choice would you like to use a drone for surveillance purposes? Why?

DRONES

A drone, in a technological context, is an unmanned aircraft. Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Essentially, a drone is a flying robot. The aircraft may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously through software-controlled flight plans in their
embedded systems working in conjunctions with GPS. UAVs have most often been associated with the military but they are also used for search and
rescue, surveillance, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring and firefighting , among other things.

More recently, the unmanned aircraft have come into consideration for a number of commercial applications.

In late 2013, Amazon announced a plan to use drones for delivery in the not-too-distant future. Personal drones are also becoming
increasingly popular, often for drone-based photography.

Other applications include drone surveillance and drone journalism, because the unmanned flying vehicles can often access locations that
would be impossible for a human to get to.

In late 2012 Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, retired to dedicate himself to his personal drones company, 3D Robotics.
Personal drones are currently a hobbyist's item most often used for aerial photography, but the market and potential applications are both expected
to expand rapidly.

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing regulations for the operation of unmanned aircraft.

Apart from what they do for the military, drones have already proven themselves capable sheep herders, delivery boys, tour guides,
filmmakers, archaeologists, and —possibly-spies. Proponents are eager to point out the many ways they're going to make our lives better.

"Really, this technology is an extra tool to help an industry be more effec-tive," says Gretchen West, the executive vice president for the
Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

"With precision agriculture, for example, it can take pictures of fields so farmers can identify problems they wouldn't necessarily see
walking through the fields.In law enforcement, you could find a child lost in the woods more easily than walking through a field, particularly if there's
bad weather or treacherous ground." While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage
around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to commercial activity, many countries have strict limitations.

1. What is a drone?
2. How useful is a drone to a country?
3. Apart from military, what are the other things that drones can do?
4. What help can drones do in agriculture?
5. If you were given a choice would you like to use a drone for surveillance purposes? Why?