INVESTIGATION


 * 1) Personal interpretation of the MYP question
 * 2) Personal meaning about the environment concept
 * 3) Personal meaning of sustainability
 * 4) Personal meaning of a system concept
 * 5) A brief explanation about the relationship between any environment and the technology
 * 6) A written explanation about the structure and the functionality of a technology construction or device, that can improve the life style in the future
 * 7) A list of specifications about the construction or device mentioned before

**1.** Future constructions or devices can improve the quality of our lives because in the future our lives would be more efficient. For example: children would be able to make their homework easily and faster. They can have new ways of entertaining and learning more things. On the other hand probably adults can make a career in less time. Can communicate easily with their family and their jobs. Probably new constructions and devices would help us to manage the energy, water and resources on earth in a good way not wasting them. In the other hand new devices or constructions would probably help the environment because now, many of them affect the environment in a negative way.  PICTURES TAKEN FROM: [] [] [|http://ec.euro][|pa.eu/dg][|s/information_society/images/reg_tv.jpg]

**2. Environment:** there are different types of environments in our daily lives. One of the environments is the natural environment that consists in living and non-living things that interact with the atmosphere, water and land. The other type of environment is the social environment that includes your cultural, house, school, virtual and religious surroundings.



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**3. Sustainability:** Means to be able to maintain in a certain level. To have equal resources and opportunities not finishing them all for future generations and to live taking in count our limits.



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**4. System:** Is a set of things working together in order to accomplish a specific task or work. It can also be a set of connected parts or things forming one whole unit.



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==== **5.** The relationship between the environment of my house and the technologies found in my house is very good. At home each of my family members use technological devices for making homework, presentations, investigations, interacting with other people or playing. I think computers, iPods, cellphones, TV and Internet make the life in our house much more easily because we can make many things in a very short time and very well structured. On the other hand I think that without all of these devices making homeworks, presentations or investigations would be very difficult and would take lots of time also communicating with my family in other countries would be very difficult. In addition my family and me don’t excess the time using technological devices, it is important to regulate it because if not you can finish being addicted to them. I think technological devices at home are needed and they are very useful. ====



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**6.** As you know hospitals use lots of energy in machines, computers, air conditioner and many other important things. Energy is being wasted and it not only affects the natural environment but human health. My idea for stop wasting energy in the hospitals is to construct a hospital with solar panels in its roof. In this way solar panels would provide energy to the hospital using the sun. The use of solar panels in the hospital would improve the quality of our lives in the future because most of the energy is produced by burning fossil fuels but the problem is that burning fossil fuels release half of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, global warming is increased, ocean is contaminated, and humans have many health problems such as lung cancer and kidney damage. In this way fossil fuels would not be burned or overused and we would not have any diseases.

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**7.** My construction would:
 * Have 10 floors.
 * A squared shape.
 * Measure 100x100 meters.
 * Have a white colour.
 * Blue glass windows of 1x1 meters.
 * A brown 3x4 meters door.
 * 10 common solar panels 10x10 meters.
 * Solar panels would be located in the roof of the building.

I had a new idea for making my final construction:

My construction would have:


 * Two towers.
 * A squared shape.
 * Colorful walls and windows.
 * A triangular roof.
 * One heliport.
 * 10 common solar panels of 10x10 meters.
 * Solar panels would be located in a platform at the side of the building.