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Science Fiction and Beyond: Escape to Mars (Research Paper)

made it impossible to live on Earth? What if it were possible to live on Mars should Earth

become uninhabitable? This paper examines how science fiction, hypothetically, could make

Planet Mars the next home for human life.

Science Fiction

Science fiction, in a nutshell, is fiction literature that incorporates science and/or innovative

technology. It deals with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a

futuristic setting. Science fiction stories are largely based on writing rationally about alternative

possibilities (Wikipedia, n.d.). These stories could very well be possible within the realm of

science, but they could also be stories that defy the very laws of nature.

settings may range from a setting in the future, to alternative timelines, to outer space, to time

travel, or worlds involving aliens. The settings, many times, are contrary to known reality

(Wikipedia, n.d.). Famous science fiction films include Star Wars Trilogy IV-VI, Aliens, Jurassic


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do on Earth. Vast dust storms occur quite frequently, obscuring large areas of the surface with

winds up to 100 miles per hour (Matz &Weaver, 2002).

Space expeditions have revealed a lot about the surface of Mars, as well. Mars has numerous

craters. Trace gases such as carbon monoxide, oxygen, ozone, and hydrogen have been found in

r, 2002).

It is known that reddish, rust-brown areas cover most of Martian surface. They are dry,

desertlike regions covered by dust, sand, and rock. The surface material seems to contain

.

Another similarity between Mars and Earth is the presence of a moon. In fact, Mars has two

tiny moons, which are called Phobos and Deimos. Phobos races around the planet in eight hours,

while Deimos goes around it in 30 hours.

Other interesting facts are that a year on Mars would equate to 687 Earth days and that Mars

is around 2.5 billion years old. The shortest distant the planet is from Earth is 34,600,000 miles,

while the longest distance is 248,000 miles.

While Mars has some favorable qualities for possible habitation, there are many complex


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Pollution poisons our air, land and water. One type pollutant - chemicals have harmed

humans, wildlife, and plant life, on land, sea and air (Web of Creation, n.d). Air pollution, has

been, particularly harmful. The World Health Organization reports that 3 million people now die

each year from the effects of air pollution. This is three times the 1 million who die each year in

automobile accidents (Web of Creation, n.d.) Pollution is classified as point source and nonpoint

source. Point source pollution is specific, coming from places such as a sewage treatment plant

or an industrial site. Nonpoint pollution results from rainfall or melting snow depositing

contaminants into bodies of water.

re, as well.

Over the past 100 years, the global average temperature has increased by approximately 0.6 C

and is projected to continue to rise at a rapid rate (Root et al., 2003). The increase of the

temperature has a negative effect on both humans and animals. This rapid rise of temperature

could result in numerous extirpations and possibly extinction (Root et al., 2003).

Global warming also heats our oceans. Since hurricanes derive their power from warm

waters, scientists expect more ferocious hurricanes. Scientists also say wildfires, droughts, and


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Filmmaking

Aside from distribution of the movie, filmmaking, in the traditional sense, involves four key

stages: development, pre-production, production, and post production. The development stage

includes among other things, two key points: a decision on which genre that will be used and the

writing of the script. It is impossible to have a great film without having a great story, so

choosing the right materials is more important than anything else (Stoller, 2009).

Once the story idea is in place, the writer starts scripting. An easy method to create a movie

is to write a screenplay with three acts. The first act introduces the main character (s) and sets the

story into motion; the conflict intensifies in the second act and the antagonist comes into play,

while in the last act, the conflict comes to a climax and the problem is resolved (Stoller, 2009).

Producing a short film is a good way to start with filmmaking. A short film usually lasts 3-

20 minutes and includes an entire story arc, from beginning to end. If films are 1-4 minutes long,

they lend themselves well to the new technology of streaming over such Internet sites as

YouTube (Stoller, 2009).

The pre-production stage involves the selection of the crew and the casting of the actors and


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An animated science fiction movie, detailing humans living on Mars, can be made with

a program called Xtranormal. This online video editing program is different from the traditional

movie making because it combines steps and simplifies the methods for movie production. It

puts direction right into the hand of the user. The user can select a limited number of characters,

type and assign text for the characters, creating audible voices for them. Xtranormal allows

plenty of creativity because of the simplicity of the program. The producer of the movie can

spend more time working with the script and the lines of the actors and actresses because there is

less to do with setup of characters and scene changes as is required with some of the other online

movie maker software.

Once the user selects the characters for the animated movie, the editing screen comes up,

providing tools to edit, change camera angles, move the characters, and change their expressions

(Online Tech Tips, 2003). Xtranormal also has the capability to let the user to change the scenes

and to add a soundtrack.

This latest technology, combined with researched information on Mars and the trigger

factors for leaving Earth, offers the movie producer tools to create a mini science fiction movie


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References

Davis, K. C. (2001). e . New York, N.Y.: HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.

Environmental Defense Fund (n.d.). Retreived from http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1405

Matz, L. & Weaver, J. H. (1989). The unfolding universe . Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing.

Online Tech Tips. (2008, May 7). How to Make Your Own Animated Movie on Line.

Retrieved from http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/create-animated-movie-

online/ (2011, March 3).

Root, T. L., Price, J. T., Hall, K. R, Schneider, S. H., Rosenzweig , C. & Pounds, J. A. (2003).

Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. Nature !421, 57-60.

Science Fiction. (n.d.). In Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia online . Retrieved from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction

Stoller, B. M. (2009). Filmmaking For Dummies . Wiley. Retrieved 26 February

2011, from !


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Unit Topic Connects to Odyssey Theme

with the Odyssey theme for the 2011 summer camp for gifted students. Odyssey, as we define it,

is a quest for information and a probe for answers that could address and resolve a world

experience should help students to think, critically, about significant contributions they can make

to the world they live in.

The unit provides a challenge for young scholars to investigate information from

various media as they consider whether Mars is a suitable habitat for humans to live. They will

not only explore the topography and environment of Mars, but present solutions for building

homes and communities and meeting all the other needs for human existence in a production of

an animated science fiction movie. As a precursor to the film production, students will examine

three factors that could trigger the exit from Earth: pollution, global warming, and nuclear war.

One of these or a combination of these factors could make Earth obsolete and make relocation

an absolute necessity.


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Infused Technology Paper

Earth is a life sustaining planet, if humans continue on the path of destruction what

options for survival will they have? Presently we are faced with global warming, pollution, and

global unrest (which could possibly lead to nuclear war). If Earth became uninhabitable humans

would need another planet on which to live. When would the great human migration take place

and where would it lead them? The closet planet to the Earth is Mars; is it a suitable location for

humans?

NASA and other space exploration entities around the world have been interested in Mars

and the possibilities of life on this particular planet. People of all ages especially young students,

have been interested in space exploration. Mars is the planet closet to the Earth. Scientist

continues to make new discoveries related to the possibility of life on Mars.

Science fiction has b

topic. In this camp unit students will use science fiction combined with computer animation to

describe a fictional human migration to Mars. Students will use the content learned during


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course campers will develop this animation, based on the real world problem (the slow death of

Earth) with a fictional solution finding a new habitation for the human race. As students learn

new information about Earth and Mars they will need time to collaborate. Piratepad is a great

collaboration tool. Students can use Pirate Pad throughout camp week. Camp participants from

each section can discuss and plan their movies. They will be able to post comments, ideas, and

links to websites they may want to use during the development stage of their animated movie.

YouTube as well as sent to university scientist, science museums and Go-Science to be used as a

learning tool for those interested in science fiction and space exploration.


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Content Outline

Science Fiction and Beyond: Escape to MarsEthel Hunter and Venisha Murphy

I. Key Elements of Science FictionA. Know the Genre - What is science fiction?

1. Science fiction 2. Science fiction focuses on the future

a. uses futuristic technology b. stories of impossible questsc. explores distant planets.

B. List of Science Fiction Movies that Exemplify the genre

II. Characteristics of MarsA. Similarities to EarthB. Topography of Mars

1. Contains numerous craters2. The planet has desert like regions

C. Mars has trace gases such as oxygen, ozone, and hydrogen

III. Reasons Humans are Leaving EarthA. PollutionB. Global Warming

1. Causes Ferocious Hurricanes2. Creates Conditions for More Droughts

C. Nuclear War


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B. Pre-production

1. Mapping Out Steps of the Moviea. The tasks of the director

i. Responsible for storytellingii. Responsible for creative decisions

i. Determines which acting roles are neededii. Decides on the actors to fill the roles in the movie

c. Duties of the director of photographyi. Supervises the photography for entire filmii. This individual is also know as a cinematographer

d. Duties of the director of audiographyi. Supervises the sound for the filmii. Edits sound for film; ensures all scenes have top

quality.

/ C. Production

1. The video/film is create and shota. Actors play their respective roles

b. Director makes decisions about acting scenes

D. Post-production1. The film is edited2. The soundtrack and video are combined3. The final version of the film is previewed before release for specified

audience.


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THE rocket's metal cooled in the meadow winds. Its lid gave a bulging pop.From its clock interior stepped a man, a woman, and three children. Theother passengers whispered away across the Martian meadow, leaving theman alone among his family.

The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if

he were standing at the centre of a vacuum. His wife, before him, trembled.The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martianclimes.

The children looked up at him. His face was cold.

'What's wrong?' asked his wife.

'Let's get back on the rocket.'

'Go back to Earth?'

'Yes! Listen!'

The wind blew, whining. At any moment the Martian air might drawhis soul from him, as marrow comes from a white bone.

He looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure


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Their name was Bittering. Harry and his wife Cora; Tim, Laura, andDavid. They built a small white cottage and ate good breakfasts there, butthe fear was never gone. It lay with Mr Bittering and Mrs Bittering, a thirdunbidden partner at every midnight talk, at every dawn awakening.

'I feel like a salt crystal,' he often said, 'in a mountain stream, being

washed away. We don't belong here. We're Earth people. This is Mars. Itwas meant for Martians. For heaven's sake, Cora, let's buy tickets for home!'

But she only shook her head. 'One day the atom bomb will fix Earth.Then we'll be safe here.'

'Safe and insane!'

Tick-tock , seven o'clock sang the voice clock; time to get up. Andthey did.

Something made him check everything each morning warm hearth,potted blood-geraniums - precisely as if he expected something to be

amiss. The morning paper was toast-warm from the six a.m. Earth rocket.He broke its seal and tilted it at his breakfast plate. He forced himself to beconvivial.


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around those towns, Papa. And I wonder if those Martians mind us livinghere. I wonder if they won't do something to us for coming here.'

'Nonsense!' Mr Bittering looked out of the windows. 'We're clean,decent people.' He looked at his children. 'All dead cities have some kind of ghosts in them. Memories, I mean.' He stared at the hills. 'You see astaircase and wonder what Martians looked like climbing it. You seeMartian paintings and you wonder what the painter was like. You make alittle ghost in your mind, a memory. It's quite natural. Imagination.' Hestopped. 'You haven't been prowling up in those ruins, have you?'

'No, Papa.' David looked at his shoes.

'See that you stay away from them. Pass the jam.'

'Just the same,' said little David, 'I bet something happens.'

Something happened that afternoon.

Laura stumbled through the settlement, crying. She dashed blindly on

to the porch.'Mother, Father - the war, Earth!' she sobbed. 'A radio flash justAt b b hit N Y k! All th k t bl N


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'No, you're lying! The rockets will come back!' Instead, he stroked Laura'shead against him and said, 'The rockets will get through, some day.'

'In five years maybe. It takes that long to build one. Father, Father,what will we do?'

'Go about our business, of course. Raise crops and children. Wait.Keep things going until the war ends and the rockets come again.'

The two boys stepped out on to the porch.

'Children,' he said, sitting there, looking beyond them, 'I've somethingto tell you.'

'We know,' they said.

Bittering wandered into the garden to stand alone in his fear. As longas the rockets had spun a silver web across space, he had been able toaccept Mars. For he had always told himself: Tomorrow, if I want, I can buya ticket and go back to Earth.

But now: the web gone, the rockets lying in jigsaw heaps of molten girder and unsnaked wire. Earth people left to the strangeness of Mars, thei d t d i i t b b k d lik i b d h i


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this, the Earthmen had felt a silent guilt at putting new names to theseancient hills and valleys.

Nevertheless, man lives by symbol and label. The names were given.

Mr Bittering felt very alone in his garden under the Martian sun, benthere, planting Earth flowers in a wild soil.

Think. Keep thinking. Different things. Keep your mind free of Earth,the atom war, the lost rockets.

He perspired. He glanced about. No one watching. He removed histie. Pretty bold, he thought. First your coat off, now your tie. He hung itneatly on a peach tree he had imported as a sapling from Massachusetts.

He returned to his philosophy of names and mountains. TheEarthmen had changed names. Now there were Hormel Valleys, RooseveltSeas, Ford Hills, Vanderbilt Plateaus, Rockefeller Rivers, on Mars. It wasn'tright. The American settlers had shown wisdom, using old Indian prairienames: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Idaho, Ohio, Utah, Milwaukee, Waukegan,Osseo. The old names, the old meanings.

Staring at the mountains wildly he thought: Are you up there? All thedead ones, you Martians? Well, here we are, alone, cut off! Come down,move us out! We're helpless!


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'Do you see? They're different. They've changed! They're not peachblossoms any more!'

'Look all right to me,' she said.

'They're not. They're wrong! I can't tell how. An extra petal, a leaf,something, the colour, the smell!'

The children ran out in time to see their father hurrying about thegarden, pulling up radishes, onions, and carrots from their beds.

'Cora, come look!'

They handled the onions, the radishes, the carrots among them.

'Do they look like carrots?'

he hesitated. 'I don't know.'

'They're changed.'

'Perhaps. '

'You know they have! Onions but not onions, carrots but not carrots.Taste the same but different. Smell: not like it used to be.' He felt his heartpounding, and he was afraid. He dug his fingers into the earth.


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And the lawn in front of their house very quietly and slowly wascolouring itself, like spring violets. Seed from Earth but growing up a softpurple.

change -who knows to what. I can't let it happen. There's only one thing todo. Burn this food!'

'It's not poisoned.''But it is. Subtly, very subtly. A little bit. A very little bit. We mustn't

touch it.'

He looked with dismay at their house. 'Even the house. The wind'sdone something to it. The air's burned it. The fog at night. The boards, all

warped out of shape. It's not an Earthman's house any more.'

'Oh, your imagination!'

He put on his coat and tie. 'I'm going into town. We've got to dosomething now. I'll be back.'

'Wait, Harry!' his wife cried.But he was gone.


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They nodded and laughed. 'Sure. Sure, Harry.'

'Do, Harry, do? What can we do?'

'Build a rocket, that's what!'

'A rocket, Harry? To go back to all that trouble? Oh, Harry!'

'Here you are, Harry.' Sam handed him a pocket mirror. 'Take a lookat yourself.'

Mr Bittering hesitated, and then raised the mirror to his face.

There were little, very dim flecks of new gold captured in the blue of his eyes. I

'Now look what you've done,' said Sam, a moment later. 'You'vebroken my mirror.'

Harry Bittering moved into the metal shop and began to build therocket. Men stood in the open door and talked and joked without raising

their voices. Once in a while they gave him a hand on lifting something. Butmostly they just idled and watched him with their yellowing eyes.

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The nights were full of wind that blew down the empty moonlit sea-meadows past the little white chess cities lying for their twelve-thousandthyear in the shallows. In the Earthmen's settlement, the Bittering houseshook with a feeling of change.

Lying abed, Mr Bittering felt his bones shifted, shaped, melted like

gold. His wife, lying beside him, was dark from many sunny afternoons.Dark she was, and golden, burnt almost black by the sun, sleeping, and thechildren metallic in their beds, and the wind roaring forlorn and changingthrough the old peach trees, the violet grass,

shaking out green rose petals.

The fear would not be stopped. It had his throat and heart. It drippedin a wetness of the arm and the temple and the trembling palm.

A green star rose in the east.

A strange word emerged from Mr Bittering's lips.

'Iorrt. Iorrt.' He repeated it.It was a Martian word. He knew no Martian.


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The days were full of metal sound. He laid the frame of the rocket with thereluctant help of three indifferent men. He grew very tired in an hour or soand had to sit down.

'The altitude,' laughed a man.

'Are you eating, Harry?' asked another.

'I'm eating,' he said, angrily.

'From your deep-freeze?'

'Yes!'

'You're getting thinner, Harry.'

'I'm not!'

'And taller.'

'Liar!'

His wife took him aside a few days later. 'Harry, I've used up all thefood in the deep-freeze. There's nothing left. I'll have to make sandwichesusing food grown on Mars.'


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He rose, sweating. 'All right, all right. Leave me alone. I'll come.'

'Good for you, Harry.'The sun was hot, the day quiet. There was only an immense staring

burn upon the land. They moved along the canal, the father, the mother,the racing children in their swimsuits. They stopped and ate meatsandwiches. He saw their skin baking brown. And he saw the yellow eyes

of his wife and his children, their eyes that were never yellow before. A fewtremblings shook him, but were carried off in waves of pleasant heat as helay in the sun. He was too tired to be afraid.

'Cora, how long have your eyes been yellow?'

She was bewildered. 'Always, I guess.'

'They didn't change from brown in the last three months?'

She bit her lips. 'No. Why do you ask?'

'Never mind.'

They sat there.

'The children's eyes,' he said. 'They're yellow, too.'

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things, yellow things. Change. Change. Slow, deep, silent change. And isn'tthat what it is up there?

He saw the sky submerged above him, the sun made Martian byatmosphere and time and space.

Up there, a big river, he thought, a Martian river, all of us lying deepin it, in our pebble houses, in our sunken boulder houses, like crayfish

hidden, and the water washing away our old bodies and lengthening thebones and -

He let himself drift up through the soft light.

Tim sat on the edge of the canal, regarding his father seriously.

'Utha,' he said.

'What?' asked his father.

The boy smiled. 'You know. Utha's the Martian word for "father".'

'Where did you learn it?'

'I don't know. Around. Utha!''What do you want?'


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Mr Bittering put his hand to his head. He thought of the rocket,himself working alone, himself alone even among his family, so alone.

He heard his wife say, 'Why not?'

He heard himself say, 'Yes, you can use it.'

'Yaaa!' screamed the boy. 'I'm Linnl, Linnl!'

Racing down the meadowlands, he danced and shouted.Mr Bittering looked at his wife. 'Why did we do that?'

'I don't know,' she said. 'It just seemed like a good idea.'

They walked into the hills. They strolled on old mosaic paths, besidestill-pumping fountains. The paths were covered with a thin film of coolwater all summer long. You kept your bare feet cool all the day, splashingas in a creek, wading.

They came to a small deserted Martian villa with a good view of thevalley. It was on top of a hill. Blue marble halls, large murals, a swimmingpool. It was refreshing in this hot summertime. The Martians hadn'tbelieved in large cities.

'How nice,' said Mrs Bittering, 'if you could move up here to this villa


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'All right. That's right.'

Bittering came out. 'Going where?' He saw a couple of trucks, loadedwith children and furniture, drive down the dusty street.

'Up to the villa,' said the man.

'Yeah, Harry. I'm going. So is Sam. Aren't you, Sam?'

'That's right, Harry. What about you?''I've got work to do here.'

'Work! You can finish that rocket in the autumn, when it's cooler.'

He took a breath. 'I got the frame all set up.'

'In the autumn is better.' Their voices were lazy in the heat.

'Got to work,' he said.

'Autumn,' they reasoned. And they sounded so sensible, so right.

then.'

No! cried part of himself, deep down, put away, locked tight,suffocating. No! No!


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'Forget the map. It's Tirra now. Now I found a place in the Pillanmountains - '

'You mean the Rockefeller range,' said Bittering.

'I mean the Pillan mountains,' said Sam.

'Yes,' said Bittering, buried in the hot, swarming air. 'The Pillanmountains. '

Everyone worked at loading the truck in the hot, still afternoon of thenext day.

Laura, Tim, and David carried packages. Or, as they preferred to beknown, Ttil, Linnl, and Werr carried packages.

The furniture was abandoned in the little white cottage.

'It looked just fine in Boston,' said the mother. 'And here in thecottage. But up at the villa? No. We'll get it when we come back in theautumn. '

Bittering himself was quiet.

'I've some ideas on furniture for the villa,' he said, after a time. 'Big,lazy furniture.'


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Looking at the small white cottage for a long moment, he was filledwith a desire to rush to it, touch it, say goodbye to it, for he felt as if he weregoing away on a long journey, leaving something to which he could never quite return, never understand again.

'Where did they go?' he wondered. He glanced at his wife. She wasgolden and slender as his daughter. She looked at him, and he seemedalmost as young as their eldest son.

'I don't know,' she said.

'We'll go back to town maybe next year, or the year after, or the year after that,' he said, calmly. 'Now - I'm warm. How about taking a swim?'

They turned their backs to the valley. Arm in arm they walked silently

down a path of clear running spring water.

Five years later, a rocket fell out of the sky. It lay steaming in thevalley. Men leaped out of it, shouting.

'We won the war on Earth! We're here to rescue you! Hey!'But the American-built town of cottages, peach trees, and theatres

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'Did they tell you what became of the men and women who built thisEarth settlement, Lieutenant?'

'They hadn't the foggiest notion of what happened to this town or itspeople.'

'Strange. You think those Martians killed them?'

'They look surprisingly peaceful. Chances are a plague did this town

in, sir.'

'Perhaps. I suppose this is one of those mysteries we'll never solve.One of those mysteries you read about.'

The captain looked at the room, the dusty windows, the bluemountains rising beyond, the canals moving in the light, and he heard thesoft wind in the air. He shivered. Then, recovering, he tapped a large freshmap he had thumb-tacked to the top of an empty table.

'Lots to be done, Lieutenant.' His voice droned on and quietly on asthe sun sank behind the blue hills. 'New settlements. Mining sites, mineralsto be looked for. Bacteriological specimens taken. The work, all the work.

And the old records were lost. We'll have a job of remapping to do,renaming the mountains and rivers and such. Calls for a little imagination.


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IMPORTANT NOTE: The following are attached in a separate file 1) science fictionPowerPoint, 2) unit outline, 3) storyboard handout, and 4) Xtranormal tutorial.


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Unit Title: Science Fiction and Beyond- Escape to MarsTitle Content Hook Proposed Activities

Day 1Monday

Third and FourthRocks from the Sun

Global Warmingand Pollution

Mars Is ItInhabitable?

Sci-fi Genre

1. Be able to determine major

reasons Earth Could becomeuninhabitable. Identify humanneeds for life.

2. Understand the topography of Mars

3. Determine any life sustainingtraits of Mars.

4. Gain knowledge of sciencefiction genre for use in animationdevelopment

Xtranormal Video Clipintroducing students to thereal world problem needing asolution.

Earth is a life sustainingplanet, if humans continue onthe path of destruction whatoptions for survival will theyhave?

Is life on Mars possible?

Students will view musicvideo -A

on effects of global warming.

ABC brainstorming activity-students will discuss possiblenecessities for life in groups.

Mars Web questinvestigation-determine marstopography and lifesustaining characteristics.

Were And Golden Studentswill determine the validity of Dark They Were and

fiction) and Pirate Pad

Introduction to Pirate Pad

Post questions on Pirate Padfor tomorrows expert.


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Day 2Tuesday

Lights CameraAnimation!!!

Students begin thedeveloping stage of their Sci-fi

animation

1. Be introduced to Xtranormalanimation software and its manyoptions.

2. Learn and develop a science

fiction script3. Design sets and characters

using Xtranormal4. Have an open discussion with a

science expert.

Short Movie Maker video- Acollection of Science Fictionclips scrolling with Star Warstheme in the background.

Discuss variations in science

fiction.

Xtranormal Tutorial

Script Development Stage-

Students plan story boards.

Xtranormal Exploration andcharacter and setdevelopment. Guest Speaker via Skype

Guest Speaker via Skype

Day 3Wednesday

Pixar on a budget

Mars Migration

Animation

Student animationproductioncontinued

1. Continue developing Xtranormal

Animation

Wall-E and Avatar Video clip

Two very different

interpretations

Product Development

Day 4Thursday

Finalize AnimatedMovie for publication

1. Determine the importance of editing and finalizing movies

Avatar-deleted scene

Discuss why it was cut

Product Development

Editing Film for publication

Unit Goals:1.Students will understand three major reasons Earth could become uninhabitable, thereby requiring humans to find another habitat2. Students will determine if living on Mars is just science fiction or if the planet can actually sustain human life3. Students will understand the process of sci-fi film making4.Students will develop a science fiction animation depicting a human Mars migration


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An Exciting Adventure!


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Sciencefiction is oneof manytypes of

literature


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It is a genre (orcategory) of fictionthat considers theimpact of scienceand/or people.


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Science fiction hasconnection to sciencein that the imaginaryelements couldpossibly happenthrough scientificdevelopments.


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The Time Machine byH.G Wells

Jurassic Park byMichael Crichton


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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde byRobert LouisStevensonFrankenstein by MaryShelley


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The War of the Worldsby H.G Well


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E.T.MetropolisPlanet of the Apes

AlienStar Wars: The EmpireStrikes Back2001: A SpaceOdyssey


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Avatar

Iron Man

Robot

I, Robot


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MAJ102 XtraNormal.com Tutorial MAJ102 XtraNormal TutorialIf You Can Type, You Can Make Movies

This lesson will introduce you to the features in XtraNormal.com, awebsite that allows you to create short, basic animated movies. For thistutorial, well create a 2 character scene knock knock joke.

Step 1:Visit www.xtranormal.com and click on Create Account in the upper right corner.Step 2: Choose the Playgoz / 2 Actors set.

Step 3: Customize your scene


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MAJ102 XtraNormal.com Tutorial

Choose background music, Intro or Outro tracks

Step 4: Start Scripting Your Movie


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Digital Storytelling Storyboard 1 www.jasonohler.com/storytelling

DIGITAL STORYTELLING STORYBOARD TEMPLATES

The templates in this packet have been adapted from traditional storyboardmaterials for use with digital storytelling projects. The templates are intwo forms: 1 screen per page and 2 screens per page. They have beencreated with Word tables and are very adaptable. Feel free to reconfigureas needed. If you have the PDF version and need theWord version (or vice versa), please let me know.

Jasonwww.jasonohler.com/storytelling | [email protected]

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FRAME/EVENT DESCRIPTION MEDIA LIST

Here you describe: what will appear on the screen (picture,

clip, graphic or other kind of visual)

what listeners will hear (music, narrative,sounds) your directors comments about what you

are trying to achieve and communicate

Here you list the specifics of every pieceof media you will need; this will help yougather materials before beginning story

construction; it also serves as a workscited list for copyright purposes Music, songs, sounds, voice recordings Pictures, graphics, diagrams Video clip Text, titles, transitions

NARRATION:

Here you write out or describe the narrative

NARRATION:

Here you do a quick sketchof what will appear at thispoint in your digital storyyou can also paste a graphic

or photo heredo whatever works to remindyou of what sgoing on



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