STS part 1

is an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.

is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions and experimental and empirical activities that generates universal truths.

• Science

• Society

• Technology

Technology, on the other hand is the application of science and creation of systems, processes and objects designed to help humans in their daily activities.

• Science

• Technology

• Society

the sum total of our interactions as humans, including the interactions that we engage in to understand the nature of things and to create things.

• Science

• Technology

• Society

is important to the public because it helps address issues and problems that are of concern to the general population.

 was considered advanced as compared with other ancient nations because of one of the early inventions of Egyptian civilization – the papyrus.

an ancient form of paper, made from the papyrus plant, a reed which grows in the marshy areas around the Nile river.

took thin slices of the stem of the papyrus plant, laid them crosswise on top of each other, moistened them, and then pressed and dried them.

 wrote on clay tablets or smooth rocks

The ancient Greeks were the early thinkers and as far as historians can tell, they were the first true scientists.