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The document provides a timeline of scientific and technological developments in the Philippines from pre-colonial times through the American regime. Some key developments include: - By 3000 BC, early Filipinos were producing tools from stone and seashells and learning metalworking. - During the Spanish regime in the 17th century, the Spaniards introduced technologies like stone masonry, brick making, and town planning. - In the 19th century, studies of diseases increased and Filipinos began participating in scientific research. The Manila Observatory was also founded in 1865 to study weather. - Under the American regime, science and technology advanced rapidly in the Philippines.

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STS Activity 2 Trace Me

The document provides a timeline of scientific and technological developments in the Philippines from pre-colonial times through the American regime. Some key developments include: - By 3000 BC, early Filipinos were producing tools from stone and seashells and learning metalworking. - During the Spanish regime in the 17th century, the Spaniards introduced technologies like stone masonry, brick making, and town planning. - In the 19th century, studies of diseases increased and Filipinos began participating in scientific research. The Manila Observatory was also founded in 1865 to study weather. - Under the American regime, science and technology advanced rapidly in the Philippines.

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Activity 1.

Trace me
Directions: Read the whole paper of Olivia Caoli on “A History of Science
and Technology in the Philippines. After reading, create a timeline of the
scientific and technological developments in the Philippines. Identify the
developments that occurred in every period. Use a separate sheet for
your output. A sample is given below as your guide. See Appendix B.4 for
the rubric.

Pre-Colonial

The early Filipinos had a simple level of


technological development at that period of
time. For about 40,000 years, they made By about 3,000 B.C., they were producing
simple tools or weapons of stone flakes but adzes ornaments of seashells and pottery of
eventually developed techniques for sawing, various designs. The early Filipinos learned
drilling and polishing hard stones. By about to make metal tools and implements --
3,000 B.C., they were producing adzes copper, gold, bronze and, later, iron.

By the first century A.D., Filipinos were


weaving cotton, smelting iron, making
pottery and glass ornaments and were also Spanish Regime
engaged in agriculture.
Filipinos had also learned to build boats for The Spaniards introduced the technology of
the coastal trade. town planning and building with stones, brick
and tiles and masons in the seventeenth
century.
By the second half of the nineteenth century,
studies of infectious diseases such as
smallpox, cholera, bubonic plague, When Manila undergo rapid development,
dysentery, leprosy and malaria were modern amenities such as waterworks
intensified and native Filipinos began to system, steam tramways, electric lights,
participate in scientific research. newspapers, a banking system were
introduced into the city by the latter half of
the nineteenth century.
Meteorological studies were promoted by
Jesuits who founded the Manila Observatory
in 1865 which collected and made available
typhoon and climatological observations. In
1879, Fr. Federico Faura was able to issue First Republic
the first public typhoon warning.
The government took steps to establish a
secular educational system by a decree of
19 October 1898; it created the Universidad
American Republic Literaria de Filipinas as a secular, state-
supported institution of higher learning. It
Science and technology in the Philippines offered courses in law, medicine, surgery,
advanced rapidly during the American pharmacy and notary public.
regime.

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