INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE WORLD HISTORY

TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

This assignment is designed to have you explore how events in World History have been impacted by the development of technology.

Each student will be required to choose "1" technological advance from the list below. Each student will clearly print their name on the blank next to the technological advance on the sign up sheet which is posted in the classroom. Only one person to each technological advance, first come, first served.

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES

Stone Tools	Inclined Plane	The Wedge	Production & control of Fire
Bow and Arrow	Wind Musical Instruments	The Wheel	The Sundial
The Abacus	Stringed Musical Instruments	Glass	The Hippocratic Method
The Lever	The Pulley	Sprial Screw	Water Wheel Power Plants
Windmills	The Hospital	Mechanical Clock	Gunpowder
Printing	Rockets	Eyeglasses	Guns
Harpsichords & Pianos	The Microscope	The Telescope	Submarine
The Match	The Thermometer	The Steam Engine	Hot Air Balloon
Vaccinations	Electric Battery	Locomotives	Photography
Sewing Machine	Mechanical Harvester	Anesthesia	Repeating Arms
Electric Motors	Telegraph	Elevator	Asprin
Machine Gun	Dynamite	Typewriter	Plastic
Vacuum Cleaner	Telephone	Phonograph	Electric Light Bulb
Synthetic Fabrics	Automobile	Motion Pictures	Solar Cells
Zipper	Diesel Engine	Audio Tape Recording	Airplane
Radio	Theory of Relativity	Television	Fax Machine
Penicillin	Jet Propelled Aircraft	Radar	Helicopter
Nuclear Reactor	Microwave Oven	Fiber Optics	Laser
Space Flight	Computer Chip	Compact Disk	Personal Computer
Human Space Flight	Interstellar Spacecraft	Teflon	Communication Satellites
Chemical Warfare	Biological Warfare	Digital Imagery	Internal Combustion Engine

Assignment Instructions

This Assignment comes in four parts.

Part 1

The assignment will have an MLA style title page with the name of the advancement typed and centered (left-right, top-bottom). The student's full name, class title and due date will be located in the lower right hand corner, single spaced and allowing for a one inch margin on all sides

Part 2

The body of the paper (which is not to exceed 2 double spaced typed pages (using a standard font of 10-12 points and having a 1 inch margin on all 4 sides) will have the following information.

INVENTION:___________________________________

DATE OF INVENTION:__________________________

PLACE OF ORGIN:______________________________

INVENTOR(S):__________________________________

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION:

INFORMATION REGARDING THE INVENTOR,THE SOCIETY, AND CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE INVENTION:

HOW THIS INVENTION CHANGED THE SOCIETY OF ORIGIN:

HOW (AND WHEN) THIS INVENTION WAS INTRODUCED TO OTHER SOCIETIES AND THE IMPACT IT HAD UPON INTRODUCTION:

WHY THIS INVENTION IS CONSIDERED ONE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD:

NOTE TO STUDENTS:

THE FOUR IDENTIFICATION ITEMS ABOVE ARE TO BE SINGLE SPACED AND LOCATED ON THE LEFT HAND MARGIN. BE CERTAIN TO TYPE THE QUESTIONS IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND YOUR ANSWER IN LOWER CASE--PARAGRAPH FORMAT. EACH ANSWER TO THE LAST FIVE QUESTIONS MUST BE FULL AND COMPLETE. THE QUALITY OF YOUR ANSWER WILL DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF POINTS YOU EARN.

You must write in the third person. Use of first or second person will result in the loss of one (1) letter grade for each occurance. Each spelling error will result in the loss of one letter grade.

Part 3

Part three will be a picture of the invention in its original form. The picture may be printed on or attached with clear tape in a neat fashion to the page immediately following the body of the paper.

Part 4

Each paper will be accompanied by a MLA style Works Cited page. This page must have a minimum of 5 entries which will include either 3 printed works and 2 internet sources or 3 internet sources and 2 printed works. The Works Cited page will be the last page of this report.