Final Frontiers

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Description (from Crossroads Series)

In Final Frontiers, students will read about what life in the future might be like and investigate developments in the field of underwater exploration, space travel, and robotics. Unit selections may include short stories, magazine articles, poems, and radio interviews.

Students can be given opportunities to investigate research topics, analyze the features of informational articles, conduct and write a radio interview and adapt a story.

Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Crossroads 9 available from Nelson Publishing Company

• NASA - An Internet guide to NASA. It's an excellent source of information with up-to-date information about space, including photographs.
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System - A multimedia investigation of the history, mythology, and science of our solar system.
• Remotely Operated Vehicle - Students can view a variety of robotic devices in this International Submarine Engineering site.
• Oceans Canada - A comprehensive site linking students to everything about oceans.

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