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01. Plan and undertake experiments or research in two of the following areas. Show you understand the science behind what you have done.
(c) World of the future – how do developments in science and engineering improve the way we live?

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Your digital alarm clock, the weather report, the
asphalt you drive on, the bus you ride in, your
decision to eat a baked potato instead of fries, your
cell phone, the antibiotics that treat your sore throat,
the clean water that comes from your faucet, and the
light that you turn off at the end of the day have all
been brought to you courtesy of Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, Maths (STEAM).

Without STEAM,

-no way to use electricity
From Ben Franklin’s studies of static and
lightning in the 1700s to Alessandro Volta’s
first battery to the critical discovery of
the relationship between electricity and
magnetism, science has steadily built up our
understanding of electricity.

-no plastic
A chemist made the first completely synthetic
plastic in the early 1900s, and since then,
chemistry has developed a wide variety of
plastics.

-no modern agriculture
In the 1940s, biologists began developing highyield
varieties of corn, wheat, and rice, which,
when paired with new fertilisers and pesticides
developed by chemists, dramatically increased
the amount of food that could be harvested
from a single field, ushering in the Green
Revolution.

-no modern medicine
In the late 1700s, Edward Jenner first
convincingly showed that vaccination worked.
In the 1800s, scientists and doctors established
the theory that germs cause many diseases.
And in the 1920s, a biologist discovered the first
antibiotic.

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