COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Activity #1 in
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (STS)

Name: Eunice M. Amponin Score: _____________

Schedule: MW 9:00-10:30 Date: August 26, 2020

Direction: Fill out the K-W-L chart below by writing what you know, want to learn and had
learned from this synchronous learning lesson # 1. Submit a computer generated or
photo/image of your output in my messenger account.

Note: Show parallelism of your answer for each row. The first row (example) was done for you.

K-W-L Chart of the Ancient Sumerian/Babylonian Civilization

What I Know?
Ex. Sumerians have a
system of writing.
1. Sumerians is the earliest
known civilization in the
historical region of southern
Mesopotamia.
2. The Sumerians were great
creators.
3. Majority
of Sumerians were
farmers. Sumer had a highly
organized agricultural
system.  smaller fragments of time,
What I Want to Learn?
How anthropologists decipher Sumerians developed the
the Sumerian writings?
What are they doing in that
time?
What are they creating?
How'd they know when they
needed to harvest?
What I Learned?
first system of writing in the
world called cuneiform.
Sumerians were farming and
raising cattle, weaving
textiles, working with
carpentry and pottery and
even enjoying beer.
 Sumerian artifacts show great
detail and ornamentation, with
fine semi-precious stones
imported from other lands,
such as lapis lazuli, marble,
and diorite, and precious
metals like hammered gold,
incorporated into the design.
In this case, people needed
to know when to plant crops,
so they invented calendars.
When they needed to define
they invented clocks, like
today's Gregorian calendar,
the Sumerians even added
extra days every four years to
balance out the cycle of the
Earth's 365-day orbit around
the sun.
4. The Sumerians were
responsible for many of the
most important innovations
and inventions.
5. The Sumerians were
responsible for many of the
most important innovations
and inventions.
What are their inventions?
What are their other
inventions aside from time?
They essentially “invented”
time by dividing day and
night into 12-hour periods,
hours into 60 minutes, and
minutes into 60 seconds. 
It is believed that
they invented the sailboat,
the chariot, the wheel, and
the plow.