Guns, Germs, and Steel Lesson Plan

Does Technology Increase Quality of Life?

Kind of Activity:

Role Play

Objective:

Students will compare technological developments in modern society to the rise of food production in hunter-gatherer societies

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6

Structure:

Divide students into small groups of 3-4. Students will imagine scenarios where new technology could benefit its users or lower its users' quality of life and act out these scenarios through role play. Each group will examine two societies from two different historical periods: one will be a burgeoning village that...