The two articles dealing with problem solving and technology in this publication should be useful to those developing the kinds of materials, experiences, and thinking that elementary school industrial arts offers children. The first article accepts problem solving as an educational goal and reports a timely and universally acceptable approach. Earle Lomon, Bette Beck, and Carolyn Arbetter present the need for problem solving abilities at all levels of the population and demand integrative and flexible cognitive skills. They provide examples of how problem solving can be arrived at through the Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools program, which helps children develop real problem-solving abilities. In the second article Robert M. W. Travers compares the long developments in the early technologies of metals with the development of education. He suggests that a technology can be developed by borrowing from other fields (such as operant conditioning efforts) or through unique development based upon sound scientific knowledge (such as educating man as an information retrieval system in light of computer technology). (YLB)