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Earth Day

Earth Day. How has technology changed our life?. Thinkers/Inquiry. How has our ability to think and inquire helped to advance technology?. Vocabulary.

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Earth Day

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  1. Earth Day How has technology changed our life?

  2. Thinkers/Inquiry • How has our ability to think and inquire helped to advance technology?

  3. Vocabulary • Nature Deficit Disorder~ A condition that some people maintain is a spreading affliction especially affecting youth but also their adult counterparts, characterized by an excessive lack of familiarity with the outdoors and the natural world. • Precautionary Principle~ The approach whereby any possible risk associated with the introduction of a new technology is largely avoided, until a full understanding of its impact on health, environment and other areas is available.

  4. What is technology? • Brainstorm a list of technology that you use everyday that your parents or grandparents did not have. • Compare your list with a partner.

  5. Background: • Technology has made our lives better. We live longer, healthier, and easier lives than our ancestors. • However, all advances also come with side affects such as pollution, chemicals, processed foods etc.

  6. Make a T Chart listing the benefits and consequences of technology Benefits Consequences

  7. Brainstorm: • How has inquiry and thinkers led to the advancement of technology?

  8. Comparison? How do we connect to our environment?

  9. Processing • Most of human history was based around a society that functioned more like Society A. Previous to industrialization, all humans were directly involved with collecting water, making tools, transporting goods, etc. They would know where their water and food came from because they would have gathered such resources themselves. They would have disposed of their own wastes, made their own tools, and found the medicinal plants needed to cure afflictions. In contrast, many of us live somewhere akin to Society B, mostly removed from these activities. We don’t see where our food is grown and processed, we watch our trash disappear on trucks, our sewage disappear down the toilet, and we buy tools and medicines that were made somewhere else. The upshot is that most of us have a greater amount of free time and efficiency in our lives.

  10. Discussion • What would be the pros and cons of living in each society? • How clean was the environment in the 1800’s as compared to today? • Do you think that modern humans’ distance from the environment makes us less aware of how we affect the environment and how, in turn, the environment provides for our needs and desires? • In order to reap the multiple benefits that technology affords us, is it really necessary to harm our environment in the process?

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