OPTION 5- Due November 30, 2011
2nd NineWeek Project
Research Paper, 1500 words, 12 font, double-spaced and bibliography. In-text citations from five reliable literary sources and a work cited page
TOPICS (student selects one):
A. OPINION PAPER: EARTH WEEK-1971
B. NATURE INSPIRED ESSAY: LIVING SIMPLY
C. CRUDE IMPACT: INCREASING MY INDEPENDENCE FROM FOSSIL FUELS
A. OPINION PAPER: EARTH WEEK-1971
Wisconsin’s Senator Gaylord Nelson was one of the principal founders of Earth Day. Read his speech entitled, Earth Week-1971*, research the environmental issues discussed in his speech and explore how you can effect change.
How have these issues changed in the forty years since his speech? How might these issues change in the next forty years? What can you as an individual do about it? Defend your opinion with critical and creative thinking and sound research.
*The speech is available for download at www.fairchildchallenge.org/hs/challenges
B. NATURE INSPIRED ESSAY: LIVING SIMPLY
Consider the way in which you could simplify your life, the things you could change about how you live or what you possess that is not “a necessity.” Choose a modern convenience that you rely on daily, give it up for three days and write about the effect the experiment had on your life and those closest to you. Work cited is not required for this essay, because it is a self-reflection.
C. CRUDE IMPACT: INCREASING MY INDEPENDENCE FROM FOSSIL FUELS
Our lives revolve around fossil fuels. Watch the documentary Crude Impact, critically evaluate its message and consider how you can increase your independence from fossil fuels. In your paper, describe lifestyle changes that you plan to make in the short-term (this week), medium-term (this year) and long-term (this decade) that will reduce your dependence on fossil fuels. Explain how the documentary may (or may not) have inspired you to change and include your own brief critical analysis of the film.
OPTION 8 –Due Feb. 1, 2012
3rd Nine Week Project – Only selected projects will attend Fairchild 2/25/12
TOPICS: Research Projects (student selects one)
A. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INVENTION
B. STORMSCAPING: LANDSCAPING FOR HURRICANES C. GREEN CUISINE: BAKE SALE REINVENTED
D. CITIZEN SCIENCE: SCHOOLYARD BIRDWATCH EVENT DATE: Saturday, February 25, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Fairchild
Student researcher(s)/representative(s) must arrive by 1:00 p.m. for project set-up
Students must select any 2 additional Options. Carefully review requirements and due dates. There will be a sign-in booklet with grade values. Grade will be recorded in corresponding Quarter.
EXTRA- CREDIT GRADES IN CORRESPONDING GRADING PERIOD
Thursday, September 22, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. (limit 5 students)
Saturday, October 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., (limit 8 students)
Fairchild will host a one-day workshop for a maximum of 150 middle and high school students, selected by
their schools, who are participating in this year’s design Challenges 3A and 3B, T-shirt and banner design.
Saturday, December 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., (limit 8 students)
Fairchild will host a one-day workshop for a maximum of 200 middle and high school students, selected by their schools, who are participating in this year’s art challenge: “Florida Flower Modifications.”
2nd NineWeek Project
Research Paper, 1500 words, 12 font, double-spaced and bibliography. In-text citations from five reliable literary sources and a work cited page
TOPICS (student selects one):
A. OPINION PAPER: EARTH WEEK-1971
B. NATURE INSPIRED ESSAY: LIVING SIMPLY
C. CRUDE IMPACT: INCREASING MY INDEPENDENCE FROM FOSSIL FUELS
A. OPINION PAPER: EARTH WEEK-1971
Wisconsin’s Senator Gaylord Nelson was one of the principal founders of Earth Day. Read his speech entitled, Earth Week-1971*, research the environmental issues discussed in his speech and explore how you can effect change.
How have these issues changed in the forty years since his speech? How might these issues change in the next forty years? What can you as an individual do about it? Defend your opinion with critical and creative thinking and sound research.
*The speech is available for download at www.fairchildchallenge.org/hs/challenges
B. NATURE INSPIRED ESSAY: LIVING SIMPLY
Consider the way in which you could simplify your life, the things you could change about how you live or what you possess that is not “a necessity.” Choose a modern convenience that you rely on daily, give it up for three days and write about the effect the experiment had on your life and those closest to you. Work cited is not required for this essay, because it is a self-reflection.
C. CRUDE IMPACT: INCREASING MY INDEPENDENCE FROM FOSSIL FUELS
Our lives revolve around fossil fuels. Watch the documentary Crude Impact, critically evaluate its message and consider how you can increase your independence from fossil fuels. In your paper, describe lifestyle changes that you plan to make in the short-term (this week), medium-term (this year) and long-term (this decade) that will reduce your dependence on fossil fuels. Explain how the documentary may (or may not) have inspired you to change and include your own brief critical analysis of the film.
OPTION 8 –Due Feb. 1, 2012
3rd Nine Week Project – Only selected projects will attend Fairchild 2/25/12
TOPICS: Research Projects (student selects one)
A. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INVENTION
B. STORMSCAPING: LANDSCAPING FOR HURRICANES C. GREEN CUISINE: BAKE SALE REINVENTED
D. CITIZEN SCIENCE: SCHOOLYARD BIRDWATCH EVENT DATE: Saturday, February 25, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Fairchild
Student researcher(s)/representative(s) must arrive by 1:00 p.m. for project set-up
Students must select any 2 additional Options. Carefully review requirements and due dates. There will be a sign-in booklet with grade values. Grade will be recorded in corresponding Quarter.
EXTRA- CREDIT GRADES IN CORRESPONDING GRADING PERIOD
Thursday, September 22, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. (limit 5 students)
Saturday, October 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., (limit 8 students)
Fairchild will host a one-day workshop for a maximum of 150 middle and high school students, selected by
their schools, who are participating in this year’s design Challenges 3A and 3B, T-shirt and banner design.
Saturday, December 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., (limit 8 students)
Fairchild will host a one-day workshop for a maximum of 200 middle and high school students, selected by their schools, who are participating in this year’s art challenge: “Florida Flower Modifications.”
