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is the description, understanding, and prediction of phenomena through
the use and generation of verifiable theories, laws, and principles

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Science

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Science has 4 meanings

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McGinn

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Is the use of scientific knowledge and/or empirical knowhow for the
production, improvement, and distribution of goods and services, as well as the satisfaction of other material needs

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Technology

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Defined science in 3 ways in his book The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it evolves?

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W. Brian Arthur

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Is a group of persons joined together for a common purpose or by a
common interest. They come to learn and perform behavior expected of them.

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Society

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Four characteristics that categorize something as science include

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Focuses on the natural world
Goes through experiments
Relies on evidence
Passes through scientific community

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strongly opposes the view that technology is “a means to an end” or “a human activity

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Martin Heidegger

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Are means for an end

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Technological objects

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Highlighted six relationships between science and technology

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Brooks

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Would not exist without the society

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Science and technology

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refers to studies of phenomena such as the general nature and interrelationship of science and technology, the social structures and reward systems of the professions of science and engineering, and social aspects of everyday scientific and technological activity.

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Internal

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further derive four main purposes of the STS approach,

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Harms and Yager

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3500 B.C- 500 AD

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Ancient period

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CA 750,000 it was used by Homo erectus

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Fire

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CA 45,000 it was used in Europe

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Stone headed spears

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CA 20,000 used in Spain and Saharan Africa.

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Wooden bow and arrow

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CA 2000 build palaces in Crete

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Minoans

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CA 1000__ is introduced in Greece

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Ironworking

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CA 1000 __ makes false teeth from gold

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Etruscan craftsmen

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Ca 8,500 make stone arrowheads

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North Americans

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Ca 8,000 __ people living on the eastern side of the Poe’s mountains develop sophisticated tools

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Folsom

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Ca 6,000 __ is made in South Africa

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Pottery

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Ca 2500 ___ makes flirt tools

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People in the Arctic

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CA 1750 ___ build a long canal to irrigate their cops

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Peruvians

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CA 1200 ___in Peru makes rafts and boats from reeds
Fishermen
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CA 1200__ carve figurines and giant human heads
Olmec sculptors
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CA 11,000 __ made in Japan
Earliest known day pots
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5,200 People in ___ make wine
Iran
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4000 __ is first made in Thailand
Bronze
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3500 __ is invented in both China and Mesopotamia
Plow
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3000 ___ are equipped with anchors
Boats in China
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2950 __ is developed in China
Lunar calendar
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2500 __ used as drains in Pakistan
Clay pipes
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2500 __ begin using acupuncture
Chinese doctors
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2296 __record the sighting of a comet
Chinese astronomers
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1361__ record a solar eclipse
Chinese astronomers
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1000 __ begin writing on bamboo or paper from bark
Chinese
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1000 __ is introduced in India
Hindu calendar of 360 days
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850 __ use natural gas for lighting
Chinese
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1200 B.C.- 3rd century A. D. Has contributed a lot of ideas or discoveries for Archaeology
Mesoamerica period
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1500 B.C-400 B.C. Mother culture of Mesoamerica
Olmecs
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300 B.C. -900 A.D Developed solar calendar with 365 days and ritual calendar with 260 days
Mayans
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12th-15th century Built chinampas or floating gardens to plant crops
Aztecs
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Also known as the Dark ages is considered to be one of the creative periods in the history of humans and said to be the start of the first industrial revolution
Medieval Period
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A medieval emperor who ruled Western Europe tried to establish a scholastic tradition
Charlemagne
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1250-1500 A.D. Saw advancements in the philosophy of science and the refinement of the scientific methods
Later middle ages
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Acted as a nucleus for the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
Scholasticism
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One of the greatest invention during the Middle Ages was the __ by Johannes Gutenberg
Printing press
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14th -17th century Period of rebirth . There is rapid spread of knowledge and information as well as the preservation of culture An intellectual and cultural movement
Renaissance Period
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Said that Interpreting the Renaissance as a time period though convenient for historians , "mask the long roots of Reanissance"
Robert Wilde
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Greatly made an impact in human opportunities for enlightenment and pleasure and created unimaginable possibilities for manipulation and control on the other
Communications revolution
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Polish mathematician and astronomer who presented the theory of heliocentric where he said that the sun is the center of the solar system instead of the Earth
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Improved the telescope, discovered new celestial bodies and found support for a heliocentric solar system
Galileo Galilei
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17th century
Middle East
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Shahada
Witness
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Salat
Worship
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Sawm
Fasting
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Zakat
Tithing
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Hajj
Pilgrimage
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Direction that should be faced when Muslims pray
Qublah
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Period in Europe in the 18th century when many writers and thinkers began to question established beliefs
Intellectual Revolution
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First to propose the idea that the sun was the center of the universe
Aristarchus
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Used Hipparchus observation to develop the Ptolemaic system
Claudius Ptolemy
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Formulated the three laws of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
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Brought back Charles Robert Darwin's interest in biology
Adam Segwick and John Henslow
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Published atomic theory and studied color blindness
John Dalton
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Law of the conservation of energy Invented ophthalmoscope
Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Discovered radioactivity
Henri Becauerel
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Discovered the electron
Joseph Thomson
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Showed that light is an electromagnetic wave
James Clerk Maxwell
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Magnet can produce electricity
Michael Faraday

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