Investigate technologies designed to reduce the negative consequences of other technologies.

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Objectives

• Investigate technologies designed to reduce the
  negative consequences of other technologies.
• Research and report on processes (reusing,
  reducing, and recycling) that conserve water,
  soil, and energy.
• Assess the effectiveness of the use of technology
  to monitor environmental conditions.
• Explain that changes in society caused by the use
  of technology can range from gradual to rapid and
  from subtle to obvious.
• Refine and extend comprehension skills by
  selecting, reading, analyzing and evaluating a
  variety of print and electronic texts about
  products and systems. (VSC Reading Comprehension
  /Informational Texts)
• Collect information and evaluate its quality.

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The Big Idea

• Knowledge of the history of technology helps
  people understand the world around them by seeing
  how people of all times and places have increased
  their capability by using their unique skills to
  innovate, improvise and invent.

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Technologies influence on History

• Popular Literature often deals with the
  development of technology and its influence on
  history.

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Your Turn...

• In your opinion, why is there a market for this
  type of literature?
• Thinking about these three books, what do you
  feel is the educational background of the authors?

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Your Turn...

• Investigate and share with the class a technology
  designed to reduce the negative consequences of
  other technologies.
• Focus your investigation on processes (reusing,
  reducing, and recycling) that conserve water,
  soil, and energy.

To confirm the following credible sources
Title of Article or book
Publisher or web address
Author
Date Published
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Researching

• Conduct a literature review
• This an account of what has been published on a
  topic by accredited scholars and researchers.
• The purpose is to inform others about what
  knowledge and ideas already exist related to the
  topic.
• Besides enhancing knowledge about the topic,
  writing a literature review enables you to gain
  and demonstrate skills in two areas
• a) information seeking the ability to scan the
  literature efficiently, using manual or
  computerized methods, to identify a set of useful
  articles and books
• b) critical appraisal the ability to apply
  principles of analysis to identify unbiased and
  valid studies.

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Literature Reviews

• Literature review should do these things
• Be organized around and related directly to the
  thesis or research question being developed
• Synthesize results into a summary of what is and
  is not known
• Identify areas of controversy in the literature
• Formulate questions that need further research

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Go take a look...

• Use the Internet to find current literature
  dealing with the development of technology.
• http//book.google.com is a good place to look
• Find and briefly summarize a review for a current
  book on a technology.
• Should be a topic you find interesting.
• Present a brief summary to the class.
• Title, Author, publisher, date, what the book
  is about.
• How did the technology change history.

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Your Assignment

• Create a research report on a specific
  technological advancement and how it changed
  history
• The purposes of research
• Is the development of an information base used to
  understand the influence of technology on
  history.

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Step by step

• Research techniques
• Select a topic
• Research the topic
• Taking notes
• Collect data, graphs, and analysis
• Write a rough draft
• Complete a written report
• Prepare an oral presentation
• Present an oral report

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Say more with Graphs

• Use of mathematical models for making
  predictions.

Does the use of a graph say more?
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Your Research Report should follow this format.
Title Page Table of Contents Summary One
paragraph-it should be clear and concise.
Introduction Give background information and
set the scene. Body The reasons behind the
need for the thing you are reporting on. The
scientific principles behind the item. Design
Sketches and or pictures (with titles and
labels). Explanation of how the item was tested
and any improvements that have been made over
time. Any problems that have been reported in
designing and building of the item. How did
they designers solve these problems? Conclusions
(and Recommendations) Bibliography
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Your Presentation should be...

• A summary to the class about what you researched.
• Should use bullets to introduce ideas
• Keep text to two lines per bullet
• Keep font at least 24
• Use a high contrast between text and background
• Try to say more with a picture or graph
• Create presentation first then go back to add
  special effects
• Remember that too many special effects will
  detract from the presentation

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Web-Sites

• Nature and History of Technology, NAE
  www.nae.edu/NAE/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/
• NAEW-649HAZ?OpenDocument
• The Society for the History of Technology
  http//shot.jhu.edu/
• Technology Throughout History
  www.bergen.org/technology/techis.html
• Timelines of Invention and Technology
  http//inventors.about.com/od/timelines/
• Internet Resources for History of Science and
  Technology www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/hsci/internet.
  htm
• Graph Analysis http//mtsu32.mtsu.edu11308/regr
  ession/level1/curvefi t/definitions.htm