Description

From the wheel to artificial intelligence — the ideas that shaped humanity. Twenty rich informational-text lessons tell the dramatic story behind each invention, explain how it actually works, examine its unintended consequences and pose questions designed to make students think, argue and wonder. Covering the wheel, printing press, steam engine, telephone, light bulb, airplane, penicillin, vaccines, computer, internet, compass, gunpowder, camera, locomotive, transistor, contraceptive pill, DNA sequencing, nuclear reactor, GPS and AI. Print and digital friendly, ready for any classroom.