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1. What is
GNR?
a. Great nuggets rule
b. Gnats, nits, rats
c. Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics
d. Gnarly nutheads rock!
(The answer is
c.)
2. Who first transmitted
electronic code over wires?
a. Samuel Morse
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Thomas Edison
d. Thomas Jefferson
(The answer is
a.)
3. The roots of
today's internet come from ARPA. What does this
stand for?
a. American Racoon Pinchers
Association
b. Advanced Research Projects Agency
c. Admitted Retired Pundits Association
d. Always Run Past Aardvarks
(The answer is
b.)
4. What does the
abbreviation RFID mean?
a. Really Freaky Insect Dessert
(look out at lunch today!)
b. Radio Frequency Identification (allows info chips
to be read or traced to a particular user)
c. Rays From India Different
d. Random Fleas Invade Dog
(The answer is
b.)
5. Who is Ray
Kurzweil?
a. Rock and roller from Green
Day
b. Leonardo Da Vinci's lost nephew
c. Author of "The Singularity is Near"
d. Fictional character in Arthur C. Clarke's
books
(The answer is
c.)
6. Nanotechnology is
soooo small that it could be …
a. painted on or woven into your
clothes.
b. the size of a Buick.
c. considered a new state in the U.S.
d. easily seen by the human eye with no
magnification.
(The answer is
a.)
7. People who study the
future are called …
a. crazy cats, baby
b. guessers
c. futurists
d. predictorators
(The answer is
c.)
8. What is an
emoticon?
a. A new kind of space
satellite
b. Type characters used to convey a human facial
expression
c. A machine that makes you cry
d. A crying prison inmate
(The answer is
b.)
9. When might the
Singularity or "Spike" take
place?
a. I'm single now, but
I'm hoping to find a date soon.
b. Perhaps in the next 50 years or less, but who can
tell?
c. As soon as my mom does the laundry this week.
d. Wouldn't you like to know?
(The answer is
b.)
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Enjoy Spot the Nanodog's 2020
adventure mission to fight Iris, the
evil virus, and save the world! This comic was drawn by
Kacie A., a fifth grader.
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Look among the letters above
and circle the following 10 words and phrases that are
hidden among many other letters. Remember to look
backward!
BLOG
FUTURE
INTERNET
NANOBOT
RFID
ROBOT
SPOTNANODOG
TECHNOLOGY
THESPIKE
VIRTUAL
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ACROSS
1. What field
of science builds machines to do work for us?
4. The idea that change from genetics, robotics
and nanotechnology may hit fast - also known as
"the spike."5. How might our brains
receive information just like our computers in the
future?
6. What kind of intelligence do robots use?
7. Nickname for Mars - a future colony.
8. What field of science deals with the way living
things are put together at the DNA level?9. What
type of dog is Spot?
10. What we call the tools we use –
"tech" for short.
11. What book is associated with this site and
focuses on the future of the Internet?
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DOWN
1. What do
the R and F in RFID stand for?
2. What type of technology makes us think and feel
as if a fake world is real?
3. An internet diary or web log.
8. Short for global positioning system.
12. Worldwide computer network.
13. A nano-sized robot.
14. An _________ is a combination of type keys
that make a face ;-).
15. When something is "nano"-size it is
smaller than one millionth of a _______
16. In text-message shorthand, F2F means ______
___ ______.
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Answer
Grid
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Spot the Nanodog wrote a
special message on a set of tiles, then Fluffbot the
Nanocat came and messed them all up! Can you look at
the tiles and rearrange them to put together Spot's
original message?
Unscramble the tiles to
reveal a message.
(Answer: The Spike, a
technological advancement, will happen within the next
30 years or so. Big changes will be made in your life.
Are you ready?)
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Find
the best path for Spot to take to get inside this
ring.
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Spot has a secret message for you
that he doesn't want Iris the Virus to see. Look at
clue letters and work to unscramble each of the clue
words.
(Answer: SPOT'S BEST
FRIENDS ARE HIS ROBOT NAMED SPIKE AND A NANOCAT NAMED
FLUFFBOT.)
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There are lots of cool things to
learn and do on these great sites - try them!
National Geographic
Kids:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/
Discovery Kids:
http://kids.discovery.com/
NASA Kids:
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
Bill Nye the Science
Guy:
http://www.billnye.com/
Time Magazine for
Kids:
http://www.timeforkids.com
Zeeks! Games - fun for
children:
http://games.zeeks.com/games.php
Yahooligans - Yahoo's
site for kids:
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
Ology - a kids' site
by the American Museum of Natural
History:
http://ology.amnh.org/
PBS Kids Go (including
Cyberchase and Zoom):
http://www.pbskids.org/go/
Thunk - a site with games
and cryptography:
http://www.thunk.com/
The Museum of Science
(Boston):
http://www.tcm.org/
Science Magazine's
"Top 125 Questions":
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/125th/
Exploratorium Cool Sites
for Kids:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/kids.html
The Tech Museum of
Innovation:
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/
Girls Go Tech
Games:
http://www.girlsgotech.org/games.html
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