Science, Technology, and Society Lesson Notes PDF

**[General Concepts and Historical Developments of Science, Technology and Society]** What scientist do you remember from elementary/SHS? Attendance Questions: What App do you use the most? What type of device do you use the most? **[Lesson 1: Understanding Science and the Scientific Revolution]*...

**[General Concepts and Historical Developments of Science, Technology and Society]** What scientist do you remember from elementary/SHS? Attendance Questions: What App do you use the most? What type of device do you use the most? **[Lesson 1: Understanding Science and the Scientific Revolution]** Lesson Objectives: At the end of this lesson, you are expected to: - - **The Concept of Science** When and where science began can not be determined. Science existed from the beginning, with humans and nature. When humans began to ask questions about the environment and observe nature and its activities, that is when science began. There are many literary definitions of science: (Alata, Calano, Pawilen, 2021 *Science, Technology, and Society*) How can science be defined? 1. 2. 3. 4. **\*\*\* The public understanding of science and scientific ideas is influenced by their experiences and observations.** The desire to survive, coexist with nature, and their curiosity to study the activities of nature, inspired scholars to develop science ideas that eventually evolved into the different branches of science. **Scientific Revolution** Some facts: - - - - What is it: "The scientific revolution is..." - Why is it important: - **[Lession 2: Intellectual Revoultions that Defined Society]** Lesson Objective: discuss how the ideas proposed by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud added to inspire the advancement of the scientific revolution.  **Nicolaus Copernicus** In his book (On the Revolutions of Spheres, 1543), he presents a model of the universe in which everything moves around the sun. The sun is the centerpiece and the planets orbit the sun every year. The moon orbits the Earth. There are two kinds of planetary motion: - - During his time, this was a heretic and unacceptable idea. The Roman Catholic Church prohibited and ignored the publication of his book for the rest of the 16^th^ century (over 60 years). **Charles Darwin** His book, *The Origin of Species* 1589, presented evidence of how species evolved over time and how traits and adaptation are unique for different species. His other book, *The Descent of Man* was very controversial, stating that organic life, including human beings, goes through evolution. This was against the religious or biblical views that God created human beings. He made major contributions on evolutionary and philosophy of science. He challenged religious and unscientific ideas, which gave more value to evidence-based science. **Sigmund Freud** He developed psychoanalysis, the method to study the human mind and neurotic illnesses, scientifically. He focused on the evil nature of man and human sexuality in his studies. This posed huge challenges to scholars and ordinary citizens because of the difficulty in accepting Freud's explanations on sexuality.