Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Computers & The Science Connections
- Earth Science
- 8.B.2. Evidence of Change:
- Recognize and explain that fossils found in layers of sedimentary rock provide evidence of changing
life forms.
- Computers change over time, as they change we use the older versions to provide how before and
after are different.
- Fossils show how animals have changed over time.
- Astronomy
- 8.D.2. Regular and Predictable Motion:
- Identify and explain celestial phenomena using the regular and predictable motion of objects in the
solar system
- Astronomers use predicting motion to know if an asteroid will hit or if a solar eclipse will happen,
this helps us be safe or know things ahead of time
- People that create computers usually predict whether problems like crashing or viruses will occur
sooner or later, they use these predictable motion to help alert people or fix the situation.
- Biology
- 8.D.1. Change Over Time:
- Recognize and describe that evolutionary change in species over time occurs as a result of genetic
variation in organisms and environmental changes.
- Computers have changed throughout time this occurs because they improve older versions by
adding better equipment to it and changing how it functions.
- Species change over time by adapting to the environment and natural selection to change for a
cause.
- Chemistry
- 8.D.3. Chemical Reactions:
- Provide evidence to support the fact that common substances have the ability to change into new
substances.
- Common substances have the ability to change into new substances for example they can mold
metal into a leg for a chair.
- It goes the same way for computers, to create computers we use many different resources to create
different parts of the computers.
- Physics
- 8.A.4. Energy Transformation:
- Recognize and explain that energy can neither be created or destroyed; rather it changes form or is
transferred through the action of forces.
- Computers conduct electrical energy that cannot be created or destroyed, the fan helps cool down
the heat that is there.
- As matter cannot be created nor destroyed it can change form and have other actions.
- Thermodynamics
- 8.B.2. Heat Transformations:
- Identify and explain that heat energy is a product of the conversion of one form of energy to
another.
- Heat can be changed into electrical energy to and solar, this helps with our natural energy and it
gives us other options of energy.
- The electrical energy being used conducts electricity that helps the
computer function.
- With computers is the same way, the fan helps cool down the heat the computer is giving off to
make it work.
- Environmental Science
- 8.B.1. Environmental Impact:
- Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring
changes.
- For computers it is the same way, computers evolve over time, making it better and if you notice
smaller.
- It wasn’t like in the old days when we had a whole room for a computer.
- Human can change the ecosystem and change the future all the tools and inventions created give us
a new way of life that accelerates changing.