It is expected that students will describe the relationship between scientific principles and technology.
Students who have fully met the prescribed learning outcome are able to:
Give examples of scientific principles that have resulted in the development of technologies (e.g., cell division—reproductive technologies (timeline); electrical energy—appliances; properties of matter—semiconductors)
Identify a variety of technologies and explain how they have advanced our understanding of science (e.g., microscopes for observing cell structure; instruments for observing astronomical phenomena)
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RESOURCES:
Lesson Plan: How Science Reinforces Itself
From the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame.. prompts students to consider what scientific and technological advances had to exist before that particular development could occur and what fields might benefit from that development.
History of Science:
Primary Documents
Smithsonian: Science and Technology
- Images
- Instruments for Science, 1800-1914
University of Toronto Museum of Scientific Instruments
