You will need your

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Prepared for class?

• You will need your
• Folder
• Composition Book
• Pencil or Pen

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Objectives

• Assess prior knowledge and possible
  misconceptions related to the periods of human
  history associated with the evolution of
  technology.
• How various technologies influenced the lives of
  the people who first used it.
• Students will share their ideas on how
  technological advances may have impacted the way
  people lived, worked, or produced things.
• Relate the use of the technological artifacts to
  a turning point in history.
• Create a timeline

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The Big Idea

• 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.

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What is Technology?

• Technology is the application of knowledge, tools
  and skills to solve problems and extend human
  capabilities.
• Human innovation in action that involves the
  generation of knowledge and processes to develop
  systems that solve problems and extend human
  capabilities.

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How did it change our lives?

• How did the following items influence the lives
  of the people that first used it?

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Exploration

• In small groups (teacher assigned)
• Brainstorm how a technological advancement
  influenced history.
• The plow, irrigation systems, cannons, printing
  press, steam engine, radar, computer.
• Think and answer the following.
• What did people do before the advancement?
• Why is the advancement important?
• How did it change history?
• What were the benefits to people?

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History Lesson....

• What is History?
• A chronological record of significant events
  often including an explanation of their causes.

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The Palaeolithic Age

• 500,000 BC 10,000 BC
• Earliest known stone tools
• Stone axes, bone needles
• Impact of technology
• Improved health
• Enhanced security
• Enabled humans to increase population

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Mesolithic Age

• 10,000 BC 4000 BC
• Development of composite tools
• Leatherwork, basketry, fishing tackle
• Domestication of animals
• Impacts of Technology
• Farming, domestication of animals, beginning of
  settled communities.

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Neolithic Age

• 4000 BC 2300 BC
• Development of agriculture, year round
  settlements
• Pottery, polished stone tools, spinning and
  weaving tools, wooden and stone plows, sickles.
• Impacts of Technology
• Dependable year round food, division of labor
  that spurs invention and innovation

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Bronze Age

• 2300 BC 700 BC
• Earliest civilizations - the development of
  metallurgy, mainly the combining of copper and
  tin to make bronze.
• Bronze jewelry, tools, and weapons.
• Impact of Technology - Stone tools were gradually
  replaced by metal ones. Enabled humans to alter
  their environment at a great rate

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Iron Age

• 700 BC 450 AD
• The use of iron as the main metal.
• Iron dagger, iron chisels, small figurines,
  ornamental jewelry, swords, axes, spearheads.
• Impact of technology
• Military dominance for uses of iron weapons and
  the use of iron bladed plows enabled humans to
  cultivate heavier soils and increase food
  production

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Middle Ages

• 450 1400 AD
• The period of European history between fall of
  Rome and the Renaissance
• Wheeled plow, improved harness for horses,
  horseshoes, stirrups, waterwheels, crank,
  windmill, cast iron, cannons, mechanical clock,
  compass, ocean-going ships.
• Impact of technology - The rise and decline of
  serfdom and feudalism, the rise of the money
  economy and capitalism, the expansion and
  contraction of economic activity, and the
  beginnings of urbanization and industrialization.

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Renaissance Age

• 1400-1750 AD
• The transitional movement in Europe between the
  middle ages and modern times, marked by a
  humanistic revival of classical influence
• Telescope, microscope, thermometer, clocks,
  barometer
• Impact of technology - Instrumentation enabled
  early scientists to observe and quantify natural
  phenomena.

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Industrial Age

• 1750-1950 AD
• The cultural stage characterized by the first use
  of complex machinery, factories, urbanization,
  and other economic and general social changes
  from strictly agricultural societies.
• Steam engine, electricity, automobile, airplane,
  radio, television, telephone, and rocket.
• Impact of technology - The Industrial Revolution
  gave rise to urban centers requiring vast
  municipal services, created a specialized and
  interdependent economic life, and provided the
  economic base for the rise of the professions,
  population expansion, and improvement in living
  standards.

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Information Age

• 1950 ADPresent
• Starting in the 1950s and continuing today in
  which the gathering, manipulation,
  classification, storage, and retrieval of
  information is central to the workings of
  society.
• Transistor, integrated circuit, computer,
  communication satellite, digital photography,
  artificial heart, nuclear power plant, space
  shuttle.
• Impact of technology - As information becomes
  more widely available, increasing numbers of
  individuals and organizations will be in a better
  position to make decisions that experts now
  make, decentralizing decision making and
  empowering more people.

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The Nature of Work
Examine the following graph. How has the nature
of work changed over time?
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Create a Timeline

• Title creative and accurately describes the
  technology
• Content Facts Accurate for all events on the
  timeline
• Graphics effective and balanced use of graphics
  and text
• Dates accurate dates for each event
• Organization set up to cover relevant time
  period. Contains appropriate yearly graduations

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Create a Timeline

• Resources contains 11 to 15 events related to
  technology
• Documentation 4 sources of information
• Objective Clearly stated and appropriately
  focused
• Knowledge gained Accurately answered all
  questions, related content and processes.

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Finish Timeline

• Check rubric.
• Make sure you have everything on your timeline.
• Create a document in Publisher.
• Blank Document
• Set Poster to 18 x 24
• Get permission to Print.