Time travel : fact or fiction....

Introduction

There are many Science Fiction movies and stories about traveling through time from the past and into the future. Is it possible to travel through time, or is this just a fantasy? Could time travel ever occur? Where would you go if you had the opportunity to travel through time? Many scientists and philosophers in the past have tried to create time machines and practice traveling through time. In this webquest you will go on a journey through time. Through out this expedition you and your team of scientists will conduct research to decide whether time travel is possible? You will learn the mechanics of how a time machine must work and then create your own time machine to travel back through the past to collect artifacts that you feel will teach the future generation about how humans valued society, and travel into the future to bring back artifacts that will teach our current generation about what is valued in our future society here on Earth. [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d68yRIE9OvQ align:center]

Task

You and your team of scientists will conduct research on time travel and if it is possible. As a team, you will create and design a time machine that will take your team 100 years into the past, (known as the turn of the century)and at least 50 years into the future. While traveling, the team will decide what artifacts should be brought back into the present that will teach us the values of human society at the time. In other words, what was most important to people at that time and why? Each team participant will have a role in the time travel process. Each team of scientists will consist of a historian, engineer, theorist, futurologist.

Process

Task 1: Each participant will use the given websites to conduct research and come up with facts to support their findings. Each scientist will fill in the report sheet. websites are in the evaluation tab. ( report sheet found on google classroom)

Historian: Research lifestyles, family values, and societal values in the early 1900s.

Theorist: Research articles on time travel and its possiblities.

Engineer: Research articles on time machines and designs

Futurologist: Research possible family values and societal values in the future.

Task 2:

Historian: Select 4 to 5 artifacts that symbolize family and societal values in the early 1900s. These are the artifacts that you will bring back to modern day with you in the time machine. Describe each artifact and its importance, and create a symbol for each. Do this in a google slide show.

Theorist: Decide whether time travel is possible or not. What do other scientists say about time travel ? create a list of the pros and cons of time travel. Use this list to help create a short informational/ persuasive written piece on time travel, and its possibilities or effects. Create a google document or add to the google slide show.

Engineer: Collect different designs of past time machines. Combine them together to create your own unique time machine using google draw or google docs or any other designing program. Explain in a paragraph or two exactly how the time machine works? why you chose the design that you did? and How it allows your team to travel through time.

Futurologist: After you have found what possible life could be like in the future, come up with 4 to 5 artifacts that you believe will show family values and societal values in the future. What will be most important to us? Describe each artifact, why it was chosen, and its importance. Create a symbol for each. Add this to the google slide show.

Task3: Each scientist will share their findings ( data) with each other and will decide the best way to present their findings to the class.

Websites ( copy and paste them into google browser)

historian:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim2.htm

http://www.1900s.org.uk/

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/sub…

Theorist:

http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/realistic_time_ma…

https://plus.maths.org/content/new-time-machine

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/review/dr-marc-space/time-travel.html

http://www.theweek.co.uk/health-science/59106/time-travel-four-ways-in-…

Engineer:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20360859/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING…

google image; time machine designs

Futurologist:

http://familyvaluesatwork.org/blog/california/family-leave-view-future

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/689159.stm

Evaluation

Multimedia Project : Time travel

Teacher Name:

Ms. Harless

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Requirements	All requirements from each participant are met and exceeded.	All requirements are met from each participant.	Only some of the requirements were met by each participant.	More than one requirement was not completely met.
Content	Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent.	Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good.	Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors.	Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors.
Workload	The workload is divided and shared equally by all team members.	The workload is divided and shared fairly by all team members, though workloads may vary from person to person.	The workload was divided, but one person in the group is viewed as not doing his/her fair share of the work.	The workload was not divided OR several people in the group are viewed as not doing their fair share of the work.
Originality	Product shows a large amount of original thought. Ideas are creative and inventive.	Product shows some original thought. Work shows new ideas and insights.	Uses other people\'s ideas (giving them credit), but there is little evidence of original thinking.	Uses other people\'s ideas, but does not give them credit.
Mechanics	No misspellings or grammatical errors.	Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors.	Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.
Attractiveness	Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.	Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.	Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.	Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentaion content.

Conclusion

Science fiction is a part of fiction, in which an author uses scientific ideas and imagination to explore unexpected possibilities of the past or the future. Human value is what makes up our morals, and beliefs about family culture, ethics, and society. Time travel has always been a topic of scientific discussion. Many believe it could happen, others believe it couldn't. Is it possible? only time will tell...

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBuLoRzhWeI align:center]

Please do not forget to submit your assignments to me by the due date.

Credits

Thank you to the following websites:

youtube movie clips, back to the future and the time machine.