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Technology

Driving Question: How might technology increase complexity?

Technology has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. While we can’t see the future, we can learn from the past and present to envision what the technology of the future might be.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Evaluate how technology impacts human societies.
  2. Explain how technology might impact our future.

Vocab Terms:

  • AI (artificial intelligence)
  • innovation
  • quantum
  • technology
STEP 1

Opener: Technology

Teaching Tools

To teach this lesson step, refer to page X of the Lesson 7.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

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STEP 2

Future Tech

Teaching Tools

To teach this lesson step, refer to page X of the Lesson 7.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

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This is one of those steps where we put it all together. Use this article and activity to see how technology changed the natural world in the past so we can assess what it might do in the future.

STEP 3

Closer: Technology

Teaching Tools

To teach this lesson step, refer to page X of the Lesson 7.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

Extension Materials
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Time to meet another scientist whose work had an enormous impact on scientific understanding!
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The Quantum Scientist

Teaching Tools

To teach this lesson step, refer to page X of the Lesson 7.4 Teaching Guide Locked .

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Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein collaborated, and together they changed our fundamental understanding of matter and how our Universe works.