Project Description:
Students explore technology’s impact on themselves as individuals and on society as a whole by
studying technological improvements, the pros and cons of technology in their lives, and the impact
on global culture and the environment as new products emerge.
Humans and Technology
Seventh Grade Project Map
Fall 2021
Driving Questions
● How does technology impact
us as humans?
● Which technologies have
changed the world?
Science and STEAM Exploration
Community Experiences and Engagement
● Introduction to Public forum debate format and
student led adaptation to a format suitable for a
class wide debate
● Tour of CHaRM (Center for Hard to Recycle
Materials)
● Recycling drive during fall conferences
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Science process skills
Hominid evolution
Create a stone age tool
Design challenge: Creating the BEST recycled
paper
Tinkering while reading The Boy Who
Harnessed The Wind
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Major Outcomes/Projects
● Summer reading essay
● Technology Debate
● Cables and Cords Recycling
Drive
Math Application
Literature
● Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
● The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Young
Reader’s Edition by William Kamkwamba
● Class Act by Jerry Craft (summer reading)
● Analysis of graphs
● Using current data to project/predict the future
Social Studies and History
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Written Expression
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Note: Projects are flexible and
elements may change according to
student experience and interest or
awesome opportunities and ideas
that arise during the unit.
Persuasive Essay Writing
○ Grammar via writing
○ Intro to MLA style
● Design challenge log
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Timeline of technology/technological
advances
Museum of Arcane Artifacts
Prehistoric hominid research and
presentations
Ancient civilization research and
presentations
Technologies that changed the world
since the Industrial Revolution