Science, technology and culture
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write five technological innovations of 1991–2022 in chronological order.
1991 – the Web; 1997 – Deep Blue; 2003 – the Human Genome; 2012 – CRISPR; 2022 – systems such as ChatGPT.
2
Describe two views on mass culture and your own view in 4–5 sentences.
One view – it opens the way to knowledge; another – it leads to shallowness; one’s own view is written with evidence.
3
Write four ways to check information on the internet.
Identify the source; compare several sources; check the date; reverse-search images.
4
Choose the three most important events in world history from 1991 to 2025 and justify in 3–4 sentences why they matter.
For example: the dissolution of the USSR (1991), the 11 September attacks (2001), the COVID-19 pandemic (2020); the justification relies on evidence.