PLANET TIMELINE
Create a 100 year timeline of events on your planet. The timeline should include important events like when the first town was created, who’s in charge (government), any conflicts that take place with humans or other people on the planet. You should also include anything else you feel is noteworthy; you need at least 20 events in the 100 year history. Today you need to finish your rough copy and tomorrow we will put the good copy in your booklet. Here are some tips to help you create your rough copy: 1. Make a list of events to include. - You will want to include the important events for your topic, but also add in relevant interesting events. While your timeline should maintain focus, you want it to be fun for the viewer and show that you understand the topic. ** Include events like: - Personal details such as births, deaths, and other important dates - Historical events that impacted the topic of the timeline - Important events that shaped the topic 2. Decide how many events you want to include. - Keep your events narrowed to a manageable number. You want enough details to show something about your topic, but don’t include so many that the important facts become buried. 3. Draw your timeline. - Sketch out the line using a pencil, then trace over it with a dark pen or marker. Label the timeline with the project title and the boundary years. - Use a ruler please! 4. Choose a start and end point. - You need to set boundaries for your timeline. Your boundaries need to allow you to explore your topic, so start and end your timeline with enough space to cover all of the events. - You don’t have to start with someone’s birth or end with the person’s death. 5. Decide how you will present your events. - There are many ways to display your events, depending on your preferences. You will need to create an entry for each event, and they will all need to fit on the timeline. - Try to include fewer than 20 events. - Write the events. - Draw or use images. 6. Select your time increments. - Depending on the span of time you're working with, you might choose increments in decades, years, months, or even days. Figure out what makes sense for your subject and the number of events you're including. Make the appropriate number of evenly spaced lines perpendicular to the main timeline between your start and end dates. - These time increments are not the years of your events. They are evenly spaced increments, such as five years, ten years, or twenty years. For example, you might mark 1920, 1930, 1940, and 1950, even though your events take place in 1923, 1928, 1938, and 1943. 7. Put the most important dates on the timeline. - Go along the line and mark the spots where the events will go. Draw a line that is perpendicular to your main timeline to show the years in which the events occurred, and write down a short description of each one. - Organize the dates sequentially. The events need to be on the timeline in chronological order, not in order of importance or interest. For example, events listed throughout a year should start in January and end in December. 8. Write clearly and concisely. - Your words need to be easy to read, so write clearly.
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We have been working in your little booklets for the last two weeks comparing colonization in North America to colonization on your planet you created. So far you should have 6 pages filled. Page 1 - The Purpose of a Colony - Notes on what England and France wanted colonies for Page 2 - Colonization in North America and your planet - Questions comparing your planet to what happened in North America
- Notes about the structure of New France and the Thirteen Colonies Page 4 - Colony Structure on your Planet - Questions about how your planet's colony will be organized.
- Notes about the different roles that are important for the colony of New France Page 6 - People on your Planet
- Questions about what kind of people or roles would be important for your colony.
Here's the next assignment you can complete it and hand it in any time but the official due date is Monday March 12. You need to have your stories read by the end of February. We will talk about organizing your writing sometime in February but if you have questions before then please don't hesitate to ask. The assignment can be downloaded below:
Your task today is to:
Student's goal for this week are to finish their video logs for Wednesday/Thursday! You will not be able to hand them in late. Please come talk to us about help to finish or time outside of class.
As of today, groups in Humanities should be finished their ecosystem page, their plot diagram and the video log planning sheet. If you are not done any of this, you have homework for Wednesday. Or if you're not going on the ski trip, you'll have extra time to work tomorrow. Being behind at this point would be a bad call, if you need help, ASK!
Last week we started our cross-curricular Avatar project looking at the question "should humans actively search for other planets in order to colonize them". To start we watched the movie Avatar and used this note sheet to examine what happens in the movie:
On Monday we watched the videos in the last post to start thinking about where humans are currently at with space travel and what we're looking for. Next, we started the L.A. portion of the assignment, which is to create a story through video logs about colonization on other planets. Students will also be creating an ecosystem and planet to explore. On Wednesday, your job was to finish figuring out your ecosystem and create a plot diagram for your story. Here is that assignment:
Station 1: Elon Musk: Elon Musk is the owner of Tesla and Space X. HE believes humans should be an interplanetary species. In this clip he is talking about how he will get to mars and build permanent settlements and eventually terraform it (terraform means to change the ecosystem to be more like earth) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtdydcFLE5U Station 2- Mars One: Mars one is a project that wants to send humans on a one way ticket to Mars. They would go and never return back to earth and live on Mars. 5,000 people applied for a ticket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4tgkyUBkbY Station 3- Mars TV Series: This is a trailer to National Geographic show that examines what the first manned mission to Mars might be like. This is fictional. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkcgUuubIE Station 4- Kepler Space Telescope: The Kepler Space Telescope hunts for exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets in other solar systems. part of the telescopes job is to try to find potential earth like planets capable of supporting life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0CUaiNJP_M Station 5- What do other planets look like?: This women's job is to interpret scientific data and create artist renditions of planets for NASA. In science you will have to think about what an ecosystem on another planet would look like. www.ted.com/talks/aomawa_shields_how_we_ll_find_life_on_other_planets/reading-list?c=45566 Station 6- Wanderers: A look at what motivates us to explore the solar system and beyond. vimeo.com/108650530 Station 7- What would a Martian colony look like?: This is an article about an architecture competition to see what a city/colony on Mars would like like. This is the winning design by MIT students. futurism.com/mit-radical-design-martian-city/ Station 8- Extraterrestrial life: This article explores what Alien life might look like. Again this might help you in science class. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-will-extraterrestrial-life-look-180950029/ Station 9- Becoming multi planetary: This article is about Stephen Hawking (The really smart guy in the wheel chair that talks with a a computer) and how he thinks we will need to leave this planet if the human race is to survive.
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