This document discusses the historical interactions between science, technology, and society from ancient to modern times. It defines key terms like science, technology, and society. The document outlines how early humans explored their environment and developed tools for survival, which led to the rise of civilizations and scientific advancements in areas like language, architecture, engineering, and medicine. However, civil wars, external pressures, and natural disasters sometimes caused the fall of civilizations and changed the course of scientific and technological development, such as the fall of the Roman Empire marking the end of ancient times. The document aims to discuss how scientific and technological changes have impacted society through history.
This document discusses the historical interactions between science, technology, and society from ancient to modern times. It defines key terms like science, technology, and society. The document outlines how early humans explored their environment and developed tools for survival, which led to the rise of civilizations and scientific advancements in areas like language, architecture, engineering, and medicine. However, civil wars, external pressures, and natural disasters sometimes caused the fall of civilizations and changed the course of scientific and technological development, such as the fall of the Roman Empire marking the end of ancient times. The document aims to discuss how scientific and technological changes have impacted society through history.
This document discusses the historical interactions between science, technology, and society from ancient to modern times. It defines key terms like science, technology, and society. The document outlines how early humans explored their environment and developed tools for survival, which led to the rise of civilizations and scientific advancements in areas like language, architecture, engineering, and medicine. However, civil wars, external pressures, and natural disasters sometimes caused the fall of civilizations and changed the course of scientific and technological development, such as the fall of the Roman Empire marking the end of ancient times. The document aims to discuss how scientific and technological changes have impacted society through history.
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND Lesson 1 – Historical Antecedents in
SOCIETY HISTORICAL which Social Considerations Changed DEVELOPMENTS the Course of Science and Technology
Definition of Terms:
SCIENCE. is the intellectual and practical
activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
TECHNOLOGY. Is the application of
knowledge for practical ends.
SOCIETY. A society or a human society is a
group of people involved with each other OBJECTIVES through persistent relations, or a large social 1. Discuss the interactions between science grouping, sharing the same geographical or and technology and society through history; social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and domain cultural 2. Discuss how scientific and technological expectations. developments affect society and the environment; PARADIGM SHIFT. In science, it is a change in the basic idea or concept usually caused by 3. Identify the paradigm shifts in history. new discovery/ies that no longer conforms the old concept. This change/s can also be 4. Articulate ways by which society is influenced by the social, political, cultural, transformed by science and technology; economic and other factors.
5. Recognize the contributions of different
cradles of civilizations to science and A. IN THE WORLD: ANCIENT, MIDDLE, technology. AND MODERN AGES 6. Discuss the role of science and technology in Science and Technology during the Philippine nation-building ANCIENT TIMES 7. Evaluate government policies pertaining to From the beginning of time man explored science and technology in terms of their his surroundings and develop ways to contributions to nation building; improve life. The discovery of fire led the caveman to have a protection from the 8. Identify actual science and technology policies of the government and appraise their cold environment and wild animals, they impact on the development of the Filipino also used fire for lighting, social gathering, nation. communication and others. From simple stone tools for hunting, they developed more efficient weapons. From being hunters and gatherers, they learned to cultivate plants and catch fish. Accumulation of experiences turned to knowledge and the transfer of knowledge result to a better and more convenient way of life. Through time, civilizations and empires were born, more scientific developments were evident like written and spoken language, architecture, engineering, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and a lot more. Civil wars, external pressure, and natural disasters caused fall of civilizations and changed the course of science and technology. The fall of the Roman Empire marks the end of the
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