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October 8, 2007

Answer the following in complete sentences:• What do you like about working in a group?• What do you dislike about working in a group?• Given that you are going to be participating in groups for

much of this class, what rules or guidelines should we develop as a class?

• How do we enforce these rules/guidelines?

DRILL

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1. What do you like about working in a group?

2. What do you dislike about working in a group?

3. Given that you are going to be participating in groups for much of this class, what rules or guidelines should we develop as a class?

4. How do we enforce these rules/guidelines?

DRILL

1. We need a class recorder to take notes.

2. We need a volunteer for service learning hours to create a class poster to remind us of our rules.

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Tomorrow’s class is in the COMPUTER LAB.

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1. Describe anticipated positive and negative impacts as well as the unanticipated positive and negative impacts of technological innovations.

2. Compare and contrast life in periods of technological development.

3. Explain how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology.

4. Use materials, tools, instruments, equipment, and procedures safely.

5. Contribute to a group endeavor by offering useful ideas, supporting the efforts of others, and focusing on the task.

6. Develop a graphic representation that conveys accurate information in a logical, interesting sequence that an audience can follow.

OBJECTIVES

Knowledge of the history of technology helps people understand the world around them by seeing how people of all times and places have increased their capability by using their unique skills to innovate, improvise and invent.

THE BIG IDEA

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• People of all times and places have increased their capability by?– Innovating – to do something in a new way;

to make changes– Improvising – to make or fabricate out of

what is conveniently at hand– Inventing – to devise, for the first time, by

thinking• What role does technology play in the way

people live, work, and produce things?

HISTORY and TECHNOLOGY

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• Use of fire• Unpolished stone tools• Sculpture• Musical instruments• Burial of the dead• Cave dwellings• Cave paintings• Stone axes• Bone needles• Hearth sites

Temporary site of ancient hunters. Stone implements used as tools.

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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PALEOLITHIC AGE

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• Microliths• Sails• Wheel and axle• Leatherwork• Basketry• Fishing tackle• Stone axes• Canoes• Bows• Domesticated animals• Stone circles• Sickles

Use of natural materials to create baskets

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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MESOLITHIC AGE

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HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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NEOLITHIC AGE

1. Stone and mud brick dwellings

2. Pottery

3. Polished stone tools

4. Spinning and weaving tools

5. Wooden and stone plows

Painted pottery basin

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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BRONZE AGE

• Metal pots and pans• Pottery wheel• Chariot• Pulley• Metal jewelry• Metal tools• Metal weapons

Bronze Age palstave axe and spear.

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HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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IRON AGE

• Block and tackle• Pump• Lathe• Iron dagger• Iron chisel• Iron axe• Iron spearhead

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Table 5An illustration of a typical Iron Age farmhouse

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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MIDDLE AGES• Waterwheel• Windmill• Cannon• Mechanical clock• Wheeled plow• Horseshoes• Stirrups• Crank• Compass• Ocean-going ships

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Waterwheel used to power machines

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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RENAISSANCE

• Telescope• Microscope• Thermometer• Barometer• Printing press• Rifle

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Table 5 This is the telescope that Galileo created in 1601

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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INDUSTRIAL AGE

• Steam engine• Electricity• Automobile• Airplane• Radio• Television• Telephone• Rocket

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Table 5Rockets sending satellites to orbit

Earth.

HOW DID IT CHANGE LIVES?

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INFORMATION AGE

• Transistor• Integrated circuit• Computer• Communication

satellites• Digital photography• Artificial heart• Nuclear power plants• Space shuttle

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Table 5Artificial Heart

• Modern Science is based on traditions of thought that came together in Europe about 500 years ago.

• Industrial Revolution first started in Great Britain.– Practical use of Science– Access to the sea and world markets.– Excess of farmers willing to move to cities to work in

factories.• Industrial Revolution increased productivity

– Increased child labor and unhealthy working conditions.

– Destroyed the craft tradition• Industrial Revolution still underway

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EXPLORATION

• There will be 9 groups in this class – 1 for each time period.

• Use reference resources to categorize artifacts and processes according to a technological time period.

• Develop a chart listing advancements made for the time period.

• Include pictures of artifacts for your time period.

• Discuss the positive as well as negative outcomes for the time period.

POSTER PROJECT

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• Who is going to design the poster?• Who is going to research

information?• Who is going to print pictures?

• You will be given lettering guidelines to attach to your poster for lettering.

DISTRIBUTE TASKS

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HOMEWORK

• Interview an older family member about the most significant technological advancement in their lives. Why do they say this is the most important technological advancement? What would life be like without it?

• You will report your findings to the class towards the end of the week.