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0. Introduction
1. What is it?
2. Why do we use it?
3. Where does it come from?
4. How does it work?
5. How does it change?
6. How does it change us?
7. How do we change it?
8. What are its costs & benefits?
9. How do we evaluate it?
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6. How does
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Lesson
How does technology change us? It changes how we live, how we
learn, how we work, what we expect, and what we believe. 24-hour
news on TV changes how we view our world...as the printing press changed
what a "known fact" is by letting a wide audience share information.
Electricity and natural gas connected to our homes put door-to-door coal
vendors out of business. Glasses and contact lenses allowed myopic
people to escape lions and tigers to contribute to our gene pool.
Ships and trains allowed intermixing of genes by people from distant
villages. Our book
expands on these answers while this lesson focuses on how we depend on
electricity.
Hook
stories
Seeing the Moons of Jupiter and Future Revolutions of Science
People Make Tools Make Social Systems
Technology Revolutions: Agriculture, Cities, and the Global Community
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Technology is Our Environment
Activities
A Day In the Life Story
invites students
to write an autobiographical narrative about “a day in the life of me
without electricity” to appreciate how much some technology affects how
we live.
Content
Standards (click for details)
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English-Language Arts |
Grade 5 Writing 2.1
Grade 6 Writing 2.1
Grade 7 Writing 2.1
Grade 8 Writing 2.1
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History - Social Science |
Grade 7 World History & Geography: Medieval & Early Modern Times
7.3.5
Grade 7 World History & Geography: Medieval & Early Modern Times
7.10.2
Grade 8 US History & Geography: Growth & Conflict 8.6.1
Grade 10 World History, Culture, &
Geography: The Modern World 10.11
Grade 12 Principles of American Democracy
12.6.4
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