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- 1Interactions between science and technology and social, cultural, political, and economic contexts which shape and are shaped by themSTS
- 2GCED’s 4 pillars:learning to know”, “learning to do”, “learning to be”, “learning to live together”
- 3remarkable and sudden emergence of language, consciousness and culture in our species (STONE AGE)HUMAN REVOLUTION
(HUMAN ORIGIN) - 4OLD STONE WHAT ARE THEY CALLED? __ - __ MEMBERS? WHAT TECHNOLOGY? WHAT STONE?PALEOLITHIC AGE
NOMADS
20-30
FLINT TECHNOLOGY
IRON PYRITE - 5FIRST AGRIGUCULTURAL REV DOMESTICATION OF ___ DOMESTICATION OF ___ = HEADED BY WHOM? HOUSES? KIND AND TYPES CLOTHES MADE OF? PROD OF WHAT? CHARACTERISTIC OF NEO AGE SKILLED? WHAT THESE TOOLS ALLOWED?NEOLITHIC AGE/REVOLUTION
PLANTS
LARGE ANIMALS = SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
CHARISMATIC LEADERS
PERMANENT; MUD BRICK & STILT
ANIMALS
SURPLUS CROP YIELDS
POLISHED STONE
SKILLED FARMERS
FOREST CLEARANCE - 6PERFORMS MECHANICAL WORK USING STEAM WHO INVENTED THE FIRST RELIABLE? WHAT THIS MACHINE MADE POSSIBLESTEAM ENGINE
JAMES WATT
LOCOMOTIVES AND TEXTILE MACHINES - 7FACE OF INDUSTRY CHANGED DRAMAT. ____ INDUSTRY - KEY DEVELOP. ___ SYSTEM EMPLOYED USE OF ___ & ___ APPROACHINDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
FACTORY
MACHINE &ASSEMBLY LINE - 8MINING = DEMAND FOR ___ INCREASED SUBSTITUTION OF ___ FOR ___ LOWERED THE ____ PRODUCTIONDEMAND FOR -COAL-
COAL FOR CHARCOAL
IRON PRODUCTION - 9SULPHURIC ACID CREATED FROM AND BY WHOM?LEADLEAD CHAMBER PROCESS
JOHN ROEBACK - 10COUNTRY WHO TOOK WORLD LEADERSHIP IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRYGERMANY
- 11CEMENTJOSEOP ASPDIN
- 12IRON PLOUGHJOSEPH ROTHERHAM
- 13THRESHING MACHINEANDREW MEIKLE
- 14TIN CANPETER DURAND
- 15COMMERCIAL CANNING FACTORYHALL & DORKIN
- 16INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE GREATLY CONTRIBUTES TO WHAT?JEAN LENOIR
MASS TRANSPORTATION - 17ELECTRICITYFRANKLIN
VOLTA
FARADAY - 18AUTOMOBILEHENRY FORD
MODERNIZED THE TRANSPO - 19TELEPHONEALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
- 20CAMERAJOSEPH NIEPCE
- 21PHONOGRAPHTHOMAS EDISON
- 22AIRPLANEWRIGHT BROTHERS
- 23RISE OF HUMAN EMPIRE DOMINANT INFLUENCE IN ___ & ___ MOST RECENT GEOLOGICAL PERIOD WHO POPULARIZED THE TERM? MARKS THE ANTHROPOCENE AGE SIGN OF ANTHRPO AGE GIVE MORE EXAMPLES OF THIS AGEANTHROPOCENE AGE
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
QUATERNARY
PAUL CRUTZEN
FOSSIL FUELS
SEDIMENTS CONTAINING PLASTIC
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
CHANGED GEOLOGY
FERTILIZER
GLOBAL WARMING
MASS EXTINCTION - 24TECHNOLOGIES IN A DANGEROUS WORLD T ER STS IoD E-L E-C HT CS DTTERRORISM- CYBERSPACE-SOCIAL MEDIA MOD TERRORISM
ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION- FOR HUMAN & ENV (REMOVAL OF POL & CON)
SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM- INT BET PEOPLE & TECH | SOC COM INF & HUM BEHAV
IMAGINATION OF DISASTER- NEED SCIENCE BASE | DISASTER PREP
E-LEARNING - ONLINE LEARNING
E-COMMERCE- ONLINE BUYING AND SELLING
HUMAN TRAFFICKING- TRADE OF HUMANS, EXPLOITATION,
CYBERSEX
DRUG TRAFFICKING- UNODC - 25STUDY OF PHENOMENONS AND MANIPULATION OF MATERIALS AT ATOMIC.... LEVEL PROPERTIES DIFFER FROM LARGER SCALENANOSCIENCE
- 26NANOSTRUCTURES N-C N NW BP D NANOTECH DIFF V-A R, PP, A INTEREST EP - HGS,DDR, AoR POTENTIAL RISKS WITH NANOTECHNON- CARBON NANOTUBES
NANOWIRES
BIOPOLYMERS
DENDRIMES
VOLUME TO SURFACE AREA RATIO
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
APPLICATION
ENERMOUS POTENTIAL, HUGE GAP IN KNOWLEDGE, DIFF IN DETECT & REMOVING, ABSENCE OF REGULATION
HEALTH AND ENV EFFECTS, EXPLOSIVE PROPERTY, GREY GOO