Culture & Technology
Explore the connections of Science and Social Studies!
Now you can integrate social studies and science more easily than ever!
Using dramatic video, audio and photos, you can help students make the connection between diet and temperature ... location and climate ... safety and energy ... nature and civilization ... and all the other ways that science and technology affect cultures and societies.
Resources found on Culture & Technology include:
Anthropology Curriculum Study Project, ACSP
Resource titles include: Anatomy and Behavior, How a Species Changes, Study of Early Man, Three Areas in Peru.
High School Geography Project, HSGP
Resource titles include: Enough Food for the World; Case Studies in Land Use- Mitaka and Niike; and Different Ideas about Cattle.
Human Sciences Project, HSP
Resource titles include: The Solar-Merry-Go-Round; Microbes in Milk; Aluminum Foil Bridges; and Rubber Band Canyons
Intermediate Science Curriculum Study, ISCS
Resource titles include: Combined Effect of Heredity and Environment; Earthquakes and Contraction theory; Genetics and Mathematics; Practice in Using Scale Drawings; and Moon-Earth-Sun Systems.
Individualized Science Instruction System, ISIS
ACSP Resource titles include: Ad Appeal; Octaves, Scales and Harmony; Parts of the Eye.
Man: A course of Study, MACOS
Resource titles include: Baboon Sounds and Human Speech; Designing a Tool; and Eskimo World Views- Netsilik Stories.
People and Technology, P & T
Resource titles include: Actions Against Whaling Today; Dam a River: Then What Happens; and old Chief: The Meaning of Change for Individuals.
Sociological Resources for the Social Studies, SRSS
Resource titles include: Another Way of Looking at Poverty; Group Pressure to Conform: The Asch Experiment; and Fitting People to Jobs.
Scientists, curriculum specialists, and classroom teachers collaborated in the development and field-testing of the instructional materials on the Culture & Technology CD-ROM. The original development and field-testing represent millions of dollars in National Science Foundation funding. Some of the features of Culture & Technology include:
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★A powerful search and retrieval system quickly finds resources relevant to you teaching objectives.
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★Searches may be done by choosing any combination of criteria: grade level, academic subject, words or phrases, science and social studies processes, content themes, and supplementary materials.
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★Contains dramatic video and audio segments
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★Provides a powerful tool for: science and social studies teachers grades 5-12; Science, Technology, and Society teachers; district science and social studies supervisors; curriculum committees; life management skills teachers; teacher training specialists; researchers; publishers; parents; and students.
Macintosh Requirements:
Minimum Requirements: Any Macintosh with 4 megabytes of RAM or more, 2 megabytes of free memory, using system 7.0 or higher
Recommended Requirements: 8 megabytes of RAM, 3 megabytes of free memory
Windows Requirements:
IBM compatible with 386SX processor or better
4 MB RAM
