● Wooden bow and arrow ca 20,000
● The Minoans build palaces in Cret
1. What is Science?
ca 2,000
-is a way in which answers related to
NATURAL events are proposed
THE AMERICAS
-a way in which people can learn and
UNDERSTAND events in the NATURAL
● The Folsom people living on eastern
WORLD
side of the Rocky Mountain
- based on OBSERVABLE EVENTS
developed sophisticated tools ca
- a study of the NATURAL WORLD
8,000
- a method of DISCOVERY and
● Pottery is made in South America
UNDERSTANDING by using a PROBLEM
Ca 6,000
SOLVING process called the Scientific
● Olmec sculpture carves figurines
method.
and giant human heads. Ca 1200
FOUR COMMON
ASIA AND OCEANA
CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENCE: ● Earliest known clay pots are made in
1. It focuses on the NATURAL Japan ca 11,000
WORLD. ● Bronze is first made in Thailand ca
2. Goes through experiment. 4000
3. Relies on evidence. ● A lunar calendar is developed in
4. Passes through the scientific China ca 2950
community. ● Chinese doctors begin using
acupuncture ca 2500
2. What is Technology? ● The Hindu calendar of 360 days was
W. Brian Arthur (2009) defined technology introduced in India ca 1000
as:
1. a means to fulfill a human purpose AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST
2. assemblage of practices and components ● Homo erectus uses stone
3. a collection of devices and engineering tools ca 1000000
practices available to a culture. ● ca 15000 in Africa, bone
harpoons are used for fishing
3. What is S.T.S? ● Clay tokens are used for
Science and Technology and Society (STS), record keeping in
is the study of how society, politics and Mesopotamia ca 7500
culture affects scientific research and ● Egyptians begin using
technological innovation and how these, in hieroglypics ca 3100
turn affects society, politics and culture. ● Mesopotamian
mathematicians discover the
UNIT 1 Pythagorean Theorem
ANCIENT PERIOD 3500 BC- 500 AD MEDIEVAL PERIOD CA 500-1500
● Dark ages because few written
EUROPE records and evidences remained
● USE OF FIRE BY
, ● Scholastic tradition was established ● Hans Christian Oersted (electric
by Charlemagne current near the magnet
● VERTICAL WINDMILLS ● Michael Faraday (magnet produces
● SPECTACLES electricity)
● MECHANICAL CLOCK ● Atomic Theory proposed by John
● WATER MILLS Dalton
● GOTHIC STYLE ● Electron discovered by JJ. Thomson
● Johannes Gutenberg invented the ● Telegraph developed by Samuel
printing press Morse
RENAISSANCE PERIOD 14TH-17TH 20TH CENTURY
CENTURY ● Communication, transportation,
military research were developed
● Rebirth of revival ● Apple was introduced by Steve Jobs
● Printing with movable type allowed and Steve Wozniak
Bible, secular books made in large ● Artificial Intelligence was invented
amount ● Internet was created (ARPANET)
● Nicolas Copernicus presented a ● Intel developed microprocessor
heliocentric theory ● Henry Ford's mass production of
● Galileo Galilei invented telescope cars
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 18TH SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
CENTURY (PHILIPPINE HISTORY)
● Skilled workers were set aside
because of the machines STONE AGE
● Iron production, steam engine and - Archeological findings show that
textile flourished modern man from Asian mainland
● Scottish James Watt improved first came over land on across
steam engine narrow channels to live in Batangas
● Robert Fulton (steam boat) and Palawan about 48,000 B.C
● LIGHT BULB- Thomas Edison - Subsequently they formed
● TELEPHONE- Alexander Graham settlement in Sulu, Davao,
Bell Zamboanga, Samar, Negros,
● FIRST STEAM POWERED Batangas, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan
LOCOMOTIVE- Richard Trevithick and Cagayan.
INVENTIONS:
19TH CENTURY - They made simple tools and
● Age of machine and tools weapons of stone flakes and later
● Herman Helmholtz (law of developed method of sawing and
conservation of energy) polishing stones around 40,000
● James Clark Maxwell (light as B.C.
electro-magnetic wave) - By around 3,000 B.C. they were
● Henry Becquerel (radioactivity) producing adzes, ornaments of
● Marie and Pierre Curie (radium) seashells and pottery. Pottery