1. Technological Innovations: Adapting How do we use technology to adapt to a place?
WG.19.B Analyze ways technological innovations SUCH AS air conditioning and desalinization have allowed humans to adapt to places.
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2. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know?
Adaptation
Technology
Air conditioning
Desalinization
Barrier Reefs
Flooding
Drought
Innovation
Environment

3. ADAPTATION vs. MODIFICATION
ADAPTATION: We work with nature or live with a feature of the environment. Ex: Venice was built around its canals
MODIFICATION: We change the environment by draining, clearing, redirecting or removing. Ex: China’s Three Gorge Dam, which controls the level of the water.

4. What technology would help humans adapt to this climate?
Arizona desert.
-- desalination

5. How will this technology help people adapt to the desert?
Desalination plants in Israel.

6. How will this technology help people adapt to the desert?

7. What modification was made to this environment? Why?
Golf resort in Hawaii.

8. How did this community adapt to the environment?
Coast town in Italy.

9. What technology do you see allowing humans adapt to this climate?
Winter at Sakrisøy in Lofoten, Norway

10. What technology would help humans adapt to this climate?
Watering hole in Ethiopia.
Palestinian girl filling a jug from a U.N. water relief tower.

11. What adaptation do you see? What’s the climate like?
House in Malay on stilts.

12. What modification do you see? What is its purpose?
Canal surge barriers in Panama.

13. What modification do you see? What’s the climate like?
Hurricane Barrier in Fairview section of New Bedford

14. Let’s see what we know… Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
Which modern technology allows populations like Israel's to survive extreme droughts and lack of fresh drinking water?
F electricity
G levees
H canals
J desalinization
How has desalinization technology helped nations adapt to the environment?
F It provides clean drinking water when fresh water is scarce.
G It lowers the amount of waste released into the environment.
H It prevents flooding along unpredictable rivers.
J It provides a cheap source of energy to isolated farms.

15. Let’s see what we know… Which are you ready to answer, and which do you need a peek?
The Malays have used which innovation to keep houses safe from high tides or floods?
F developing highrise apartments
G putting houses on rafts
H building on stilts
J creating manmade mountains
What technological innovation has allowed many people in southern Europe to live more comfortably?
F desalinization process
G communication technology
H air conditioning
J nuclear energy

16. Talk to each other, and then talk to me…
WG.19.B Analyze ways technological innovations SUCH AS air conditioning and desalinization have allowed humans to adapt to places
How do we use technology to adapt to a place?
Use the word wall words to answer.

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