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. [SUPPORTING STANDARD] YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM

2. Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know? AdaptationTechnologyAir conditioning DesalinizationBarrier ReefsFlooding DroughtInnovationEnvironment

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?

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

7. What modification was made to this environment? Why?

8. How did this community adapt to the environment?

9. What technology do you see allowing humans adapt to this climate?

10. What technology would help humans adapt to this climate?

11. What adaptation do you see? What’s the climate like?

12. What modification do you see? What is its purpose?

13. What modification do you see? What’s the climate like?

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.

17. Resources http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news /10_adaptation_technologies/http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news /10_adaptation_technologies/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/ oct/08/air-conditioning-baking-worldhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/ oct/08/air-conditioning-baking-world http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpedition s/standards/14/index.htmlhttp://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpedition s/standards/14/index.html