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Technology, Innovation, and Economic Change

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-WY-SS

8 lessons

Goal

Trace the evolution of tools and technologies and assess their impact on industries, ecosystems, and human society.

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Learning standards covered

us-wySS5.4.2Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Describe how tools and technology make life easier; describe how one tool or technology evolves into another (e.g., telegraph to telephone to cell phone or travois to horse-drawn wagon to railroad to car); identify a tool or technology that impacted history (e.g., ships allowed for discovery of new lands, or boiling water prevented spread of disease, railroads and the industrial revolution led to devastation of bison population, and impact of mineral and oil development in the region).