Historical Development of STS Flashcards
Science deals with learning new facts ( ______? ) and solving problems ( ______? )
Discoveries and Scientific method
Deals with learning new facts and solving problems
Science
Deals with creating or inventing things that fulfill our needs and desires or perform certain functions
Technology
Application of understanding of natural laws to the solution of practical problems
Technology
Science contributes to technology in what ways
-New knowledge serves as a direct source of ideas for new technological possibilities
-Source of tools and techniques for more efficient engineering design and a knowledge base for evaluation of feasibility of design
Technology contributes to science in what ways
-Providing a fertile source of novel scientific questions and helping to justify the allocation of resources needed to address these questions in an efficient and timely manner, extending the agenda of science
-Source of otherwise unavailable instrumentation and techniques needed to address novel and more difficult scientific questions more efficiently
Old stone age
Paleolithic
Middle stone age
Mesolithic
New stone age
Neolithic
Period in which early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers
Paleolithic period
Period in which they cooked their prey using controlled fire
Paleolithic period
Period in which they used small stone tools attached to antlers, bone or wood to serve as spears and arrows
Mesolithic period
Period in which humans switched from hunter/gatherer mode to agriculture and food production
Neolithic period
Period that used polished hand axes, adzes for ploughing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains
Neolithic period
Period that used polished hand axes, adzes for ploughing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains
Neolithic period
