This science course focuses on space sciences and is designed to start students thinking about the future and their roles in it. Strange New Worlds compliments our Sci-Fi and Fantasy writing course and is ideally taken at the same time. The issues of how technololgy impacts family relationships, nuclear war, death, overpopulation, and society as whole are explored. This course is centered around key concepts presented i n Mars Rising, a HD Science series from the science channel. Students will create their own Mars colony based on key concepts presented.
This course exposes students to many possibilities for life in the future and encurages students to invent new solutions for existing problems related to our future such as: using anit-graivry devices for travel on earth, time travel, new sources of energy and how to improve our environment. Most importantly, students become more aware of the present and how what we are doing right now will affect all our futures.
Students partipcate in creating an immersive 3D Mars colony world based on the research topics covered in the course . Students also design new anti-gravity devices and demonstate them in EduKaydia, our 3D educational environment.
This course is designed to help students:
The approach of the course is inquiry-based, project-oriented, and student-centered, requiring students to make observations, ask questions, formulate hypotheses, design and conduct 3D experiments, and apply their knowledge to practical, real life situations.
Communication skills and use of technology are also emphasized. Therefore, a significant number of writing assignments, research projects, and 3D virtual world projects will be required.
Geology, astronomy, and meteorology are the primary earth and space sciences and these disciplines will be included in the content of the course.
