1. Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

2. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

3. Definition of science SCIENCE is a systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the world and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws and theories Two major groups of science: 1 – natural sciences (study natural phenomena) 2 – social sciences (study human behaviour and societies)

4. Fields of science (natural and social sciences) NATURAL SCIENCES Chemistry Physics Astronomy Earth sciences Environmental sciences Life sciences / Biology SOCIAL SCIENCES Economics Linguistics Psychology Geography Philosophy Political sciences Sociology

5. Inventions What is the difference between an invention and a discovery? Definition: INVENTION is a new composition, device, or process "Hell, there are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something new". - Thomas A. Edison

6. Scientists – can you say who the following people are? Thomas Alva Edison Nikola Tesla

7. Scientists – can you say who the following people are? Albert Einstein Alfred Nobel

8. Alfred Nobel (1833 - 1896) a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite Born in Stockholm on 21 October 1833, he went with his family to Saint Petersburg in 1842 where he studied chemistry At the age of 18, he went to the United States to study chemistry for four years devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine The foundations of the Nobel Prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will Nobel demonstrated his explosive for the first time that year, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, England Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance "Nobels Safety Powder", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for 'power'.

9. Famous inventions – which do you find most useful for your life?

10. Answer: What technological / modern gadgets do you use at home? (fridge, vacuum cleaner, electrical tooth brush etc.) What would your life be like if you did not have them? What three inventions can you name? Do you know who invented them and when? Do you know any famous inventors? How do you think the inventions you named changed the world? By whom and where were the first computers constructed? What were the first computers like? What are the basic parts of computers?

11. Space exploration “Space Race” during the years of Cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States. the launch of the first man- made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1 – 1957 the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on July 20, 1969 the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961 the first spacewalk (by Aleksei Leonov) in 1965

12. Answer: What do you know about history of space exploration? Who was the first man in space? Who was the first man on the Moon? What are space shuttles? What big tragedies happened in the space travel? When did the first commercial space trip take place? Where is the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and why is it an important place? Where were the Russian rockets launched from?

13. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky.