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Science, Technology and Its Significance to
Society in Contemporary World

Science, Technology and Society explores the powerful social, ethical, and political relation-
ships that drive research and innovation. The program delves into the challenges of living and innovat-
ing in a world where emerging science and technologies are becoming increasingly interconnected,
pervasive, and powerful.
The program’s primary goal is to give students analytical skills that help connect science and
technology to broader social needs. STS pursues this goal through individual research projects, collab-
orative problem solving activities, user-centered design projects, and service-learning.

STS welcomes students from all majors who are interested in understanding how we can re-
sponsibly maximize the societal benefits of scientific inquiry and technological innovation.

Content Standard:
The learners demonstrate an understanding of the meaning of science, technology and its sig-
nificance.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
1. State the meaning of science and Technology.
2. Describe some notable development of science and technology and its significant to the society.
3. Describe some disadvantages of science and Technology.

Word Bank:
Science, Technology, Wheel, compass, printing press, combustion engine, telephone, Penicillin

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Answer the following Question briefly.

1. What is Science , Technology and society?
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2. How Science and technology affects to our society?
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3. What are the advantage and disadvantages of science and Technology?
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4. Cite Some notable development of science and Technology and its significance to society
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Lead Question

How significant is the science and technology to society? How Science and Tech-
nology affects to society?

A. The Meaning of science and Technology

 Science, Technology and Society (STS), also referred to as science and technology and
the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological
innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society. STS scholars are interested in a variety of
problems including the relationships between scientific and technological innovations and socie-
ty, and the directions and risks science and technology. The field of STS is related to history
and philosophy of science although with a much broader emphasis on social aspects of science
and technology.
 Science, Technology and Society refers to the interaction between science and technology
and social cultural, political and economic contexts which shape and are shaped by them; spe-
cific examples throughout human history of scientific and technological developments.

B. Meaning of Science
 Science is a systematized body of knowledge.
 Science is an organized and dynamic inquiry (following scientific method).
 Science is knowledge gained through observation and experimentation.

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 Science is a human activity; scientist.
 Science is a social enterprise: people, knowledge, skills, facilities, apparatuses and technolo-
gies.
 Science leads to formation of concepts, methods, principles, theories, law and procedures
which seek to describe and explain nature and its phenomena.

C. Meaning of Technology
 Technology as material products; results of scientific inquiry; hardware produced by a scientist.
Technology as the application of knowledge in solving scientific and practical problems that will
help humans to survive and improve his life.
 Technology as human cultural activities or endeavors
 Technology as a social enterprise -- Technology is a complex system of knowledge, skills,
people, methods, tools, materials and resources applied and allocated to the development, op-
eration and production of a new or improved product, process or services.
 Technology as modern technology based on the advances of science since the end of WWII to
the present.

D. Some of the notable human successes in the field of science and technology
Humans are ingenious species. Humans (Homo sapiens) have dreamed up and created
some amazing and far-out things. From the moment someone bashed a rock on the ground to
make the first sharp-edged tool, to the debut of the wheel to the development of Mars rovers and
the internet, several key advancement stand outys as particularly revolutionary. Here are some of
most important invention of all times, along with the science behind the invention and how they
came about.

The Wheel - The concept of inventing the wheel came during 3500 BC. Humans were severely
limited in how much stuff they could transport over land, and how far. The idea came to connect a
non-moving platform to a rolling cylinder. People then invented the wheel and axle which is the con-
cept of making wheel. The holes at the center of the wheels and the ends of the fixed axles had to
be nearly perfectly round and smooth for wheels to work. Wheeled carts facilitated agriculture and
commerce by enabling transportation of goods to and from markets, as well as easing the burden
of people traveling great distances.

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The compass - Before, mariners navigate with the
star, but that method didn't work during the day or on cloudy
nights. The Chinese invented the first compass sometime between
the 9th and 11th century; it was made of lodestone, a naturally-
magnetized iron ore, and the attractive properties of which they
had been studying for centuries. Soon after, the technology
passed on to the Europeans and Arabs through nautical contact
The compass enabled mariners to navigate safely far from land,
increasing sea trade and contributing to the Age of Discovery.

A model of an ancient Chinese compass from the Han Dynasty; it is south-Indicating ladle, or si-
nan, made of polished lodestones

Printing press - It was Johannes Gutenberg, a

German who invented the press around 1440. Though oth-
ers before him--including inventors in China and a-have de-
veloped the movable type made from metal, Gutenberg was
have created a mechanized process that transferred the ink
(which he made from linseed oil and soot) from the movable
type to paper. Printing presses exponentially increased the
speed with which book copies could be made, and thus led
to the rapid and widespread dissemination of knowledge for
the frst time in history.

The Internal combustion engine - In these

engines, the combustion of fuel releases high
temperature gas, which, as it expands, applies,
force to a piston, thus, combustion engines con-
vert chemical energy into mechanical work. Dec-
ades of engineering by many scientists went into
designing the internal combustion engine, which
took its (essentially) modern form in the latter half
of the 19th century. The engine steered in the In-
dustrial Age which enabled the invention of a huge
variety of machines, including modern cars and

The Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the elec-
tric telephone in 1876. Though several inventors did pioneering work on electronic voice
transmission, the invention quickly took off, and revolutionized global business and communi-
cation.

Penicillin - In 1928, the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria field Petri Dish in his
laboratory, the sample had become contaminated with a mold, and everywhere the mold was, the
bacteria was dead. That antibiotic mold turned out to fungus Penicillium, and over the next two dec-
ades, chemist’s purified it and developed the drug Penicillin, which fights a huge number of bacterial
infections in humans without harming the humans themselves. Penicillin was being mass and adver-
tised by 1944.

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The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer net-
works used by billions of people worldwide. It is impossible to credit the
invention of the Internet to a single person, as countless people helped
develop it. In the 1960s, a team of computer scientists working for the
U.S. Defense Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agen-
cy) built a communications network to connect the computers in the
agency, called ARPANET. It used a method of data transmission called
"packet switching". ARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet that
eventually emerged to become the "information superhighway.

Eco-Friendly Technologies/Advantages: These are sustainable technologies. This technol-

ogy utilizes resources from the environment without causing negative effects to it. Some of these are:

 Solar Energy - use of solar panels to provide electricity

 Geothermal energy
 Wind power - wind mills as source of energy

Disadvantages and Ethical dilemmas of Science and Technology

1. Threats to human survival - the invention of nuclear weapons in 1945, like the nuclear bombing of
Nagasaki and Hiroshima that caused deaths of many people. This was a product of chemical and bio-
logical warfare (bio-warfare); toxic wastes produced by manufacturing companies that threaten human
survival and stability of the environment.
2. Ethical dilemmas - exploitation of advanced scientific knowledge and technology devices and sys-
tems gave rise to situations in which advances seem to have turned against their beneficiaries, creat-
ing ethical dilemmas. The negative effects of technology are numerous. In our march to progress we
have degraded the natural world. Forest are chopped down, topsoil is washed away, rivers are pollut-
ed and our waste is dumped in the oceans.
3. Disparities in Human well being - there are advanced countries enjoying Science and technology
based successes and hold high esteem in contemporary society (Economic strength), versus millions
of people in less developed countries who have not partaken in these benefits.
4. Social and Cultural conflicts - Military power is vital for national security of many governments; Su-
perior and highly technical weapons dictated the outcomes of some recent wars.
5. Innovating technologies can have negative consequences for certain sectors or constituencies: I
 include pollution associated with production processes,
 increased unemployment from labor-saving new technologies
 conversion of agricultural land into urban areas
 effect on humans psychologically and emotionally -the usage and addiction of new gadgets effect of
overused technologies in medical industry that can cause fatal births and diseases.
 global warming

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EXERCISE NO. 1
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Direction: Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the following situation.
Answer must be back up with theories and concept of science and Technology. Give possible sugges-
tions on how to deal or treat the given situation;
1. Use of Social Media
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2. Conversion of agricultural land to Industrial areas
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3. Emergence of genetically modified organisms
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4. Use of robots/machines in industrial facilities
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5. Emergence of the different brands and models of cars
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1. Direction: Create a mind map about science technology and society using these follow-
ing learning objectives ;
A. State the meaning of science and Technology
B. .Describe some notable development of science and technology and its significant to the socie-
ty.
C. Describe some disadvantages of science and Technology

Write your answers in the space provided.

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 Science, Technology and Society (STS), also referred to as science and technology and the
study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological inno-
vation, and how these, in turn, affect society. STS scholars are interested in a variety of problems
including the relationships between scientific and technological innovations and society, and the
directions and risks science and technology. The field of STS is related to history and philosophy
of science although with a much broader emphasis on social aspects of science and technology.
 Science, Technology and Society refers to the interaction between science and technology and
social cultural, political and economic contexts which shape and are shaped by them; specific ex-
amples throughout human history of scientific and technological developments.
 Technology as a social enterprise -- Technology is a complex system of knowledge, skills, peo-
ple, methods, tools, materials and resources applied and allocated to the development, operation
and production of a new or improved product, process or services.

DO YOU KNOW? In the Philippines, people turn to science and technology for warning advice and as-
sistance during calamities and disaster: We have some government agencies responsible for giving us
advice and information. These are the Philippine Institute of Volcanalogy and Seismology (PHIVOLCS),
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Philippines Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical
Services Administration (PAGASA). We have built windmills and transit trains that provide us means of
source of Energy and transport.

Are Science and Technology applica-

tions and discoveries helps us?

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NAME:_____________________________________________________________
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MULTIPLE CHOICE.

Direction: Write the correct letter of your answer on the space provided before the numbber
_________1. Which of the following is not biotechnology?
A. Genetically modified organisms B. Cellphone
C. Cloning D. Dolly the sheep
_________2. Which of the following is not sustainable technology?
A. Solar Energy B. Geothermal energy
C. Wind power C. Biowarfare
___________3.Which is not true about science?
A. allows quick solution to a problem
B. systematized body of knowledge
C.an organized and dynamic inquiry
D. social enterprise
_________4.Which of the following is technology?
A. Laptop B. Cell
C. Microorganisms D. Digestions
_________5. Which sentence is not true?
A. Science and technology is vital for national security of many governments
B. Science and technology help in the Improvement of product is.
C. Science and technology could lead to under industrialization
D. Science and technology advances medical diagnosis
_________6. Which is the limitation of science?
A. Discovery B. Inventions
C. Theories D. Moral Judgment
_________7.He is known as the inventor of telephone;
Alexander Graham Bell B. Lawrence Roberts
C. Alexander Fleming D. Thomas Edison
_________8. I It is the drug known to be an antibiotic that kills some bacteria that has discovered by Al
exander Fleming,
Penicillin B. Streptomycin
C. Amoxicillin D Augmentin
_________9.Which of the following is not sustainable technology?
A. Solar Energy B. Geothermal energy
C. Wind power C. Biowarfare
________10. Which of the following is not considered as penaties of science and technology?
A. Threats to human survival
B. Advanced countries enjoying STS
C Ethical dilemmas
D. Advancement of countries

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Essay
Direction: answer the following question briefly.
1. Are science and technology part of your everyday living? Cite 5 example and Explain
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2. What are some of the notable human failures in the field of science and technology?.
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3. if given the chance what technology would you like to invent and why?
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4. What is the current situation of the Philippines with regards to science and Technology?
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Direction: Throughout the week, you will be asked to write weekly reflections based on
your modular activities. The format of these reflections will be consistent throughout the
week/Module 1; you will be asked to write a three paragraph reflection with each paragraph
answering one of the following questions:

What? (What you know?)

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So what? ( What did you learn from this activity? Why is it important? Why does it
matter? )
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So that? . (What did you learn from this module that might be useful for your daily lives?
How might you use the ideas or techniques discussed for your own concern? )
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