The
Final Frontier
Resource
Ideas
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Description
(from Crossroads
Series)
In
this unit, students read about what life in the future might be like and investigate
developments in the field of underwater exploration, space travel, and
robotics. Students should be given opportunities to research topics,
analyze the features of informational articles, conduct and write a radio
interview, and adapt a story.
Major
Integrated Resource (MIR)
Web
Resources
- Science
Fiction and Fantasy - A lesson for teachers and students which aims to
stretch the imagination by the viewing and reading of S.F. and Fantasy texts;
and which allows students to reveal their creative talents by writing a story
of their own and producing a board game.
- Understanding
Space Travel
- from Discoveryschool.com comes this lesson plan aimed at grades 9-12 where
students design cities for living in space in the future.
- Ocean
Exploration Education
- This site provides direct access to over 130 lesson plans, offers professional
development opportunities for educators, and has an ocean career component.
- Robotics
Curriculum
- This rather large robotics curriculum is currently under construction. It
provides teachers with Power Point presentations, high quality graphics,worksheets,
assessments, and lesson plans for teaching robotics and engineering using
LEGO robotics kits.
Related
Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre
- Ender's
Game
by Orson Scott Card - After Earth is twice attacked by aliens, the world government
begins breeding military geniuses, one of whom is Ender Wiggin.
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