Dystopia To Utopia
You wake up and realize the world has changed. A catastrophic event of epic proportions has caused the San Diego area to become a desolate city. You are accompanied by your classmates, however everyone else is gone. Using only what is left by the disaster, how will you survive? Will you ever develop a society like the one that existed? Who will cooperate with you? Who will fight back? What will you learn about yourself?
Part One , Survival: Weeks 1 – 4
These weeks are focused on survival. At the end of each week we will determine how many survival points you have earned. At the end of the four week you will know whether or not your group has what it takes to survive the apocalypse.
What will it take to survive? Keep your group strong! Identify your strengths and where you're going to need help. Are you a leader or a strong follower, both are important! Use your time wisely...spend the next four weeks reinventing the iphone and you may find that you've died because you haven’t found a way to store your dwindling food supply. Is the water safe to drink? Where are you living, do you have shelter from toxic rain storms? Four weeks is a short time to ensure survival and you don't have time to do everything...survival depends on sorting the necessary from the unnecessary, prioritize or perish!
Part Two: From Survival to Civilization
If you've gotten this far, your group has grown strong. But to develop a lasting civilization, you must forge alliances. Now is the time to rejoin with the rest of your classmates and build a civilization that will thrive for centuries!
What type of government will you form? Will everyone have a voice or only a select few? What are the principles that you will build from; what is important to you? What have the civilizations of the past taught you, what mistakes will you learn form and what successes will you copy. What role will science play in your society. Will you invest in technology? Will you find a balance between immediate growth and long term sustainability?
The choices and the consequences are yours!
Essential Question:
What are the necessary components of a functioning society?
Is there such thing as a utopian society?
How do the need of a society drive technology?
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Humanities
Part One , Survival: Weeks 1 – 4
These weeks are focused on survival. At the end of each week we will determine how many survival points you have earned. At the end of the four week you will know whether or not your group has what it takes to survive the apocalypse.
What will it take to survive? Keep your group strong! Identify your strengths and where you're going to need help. Are you a leader or a strong follower, both are important! Use your time wisely...spend the next four weeks reinventing the iphone and you may find that you've died because you haven’t found a way to store your dwindling food supply. Is the water safe to drink? Where are you living, do you have shelter from toxic rain storms? Four weeks is a short time to ensure survival and you don't have time to do everything...survival depends on sorting the necessary from the unnecessary, prioritize or perish!
Part Two: From Survival to Civilization
If you've gotten this far, your group has grown strong. But to develop a lasting civilization, you must forge alliances. Now is the time to rejoin with the rest of your classmates and build a civilization that will thrive for centuries!
What type of government will you form? Will everyone have a voice or only a select few? What are the principles that you will build from; what is important to you? What have the civilizations of the past taught you, what mistakes will you learn form and what successes will you copy. What role will science play in your society. Will you invest in technology? Will you find a balance between immediate growth and long term sustainability?
The choices and the consequences are yours!
Essential Question:
What are the necessary components of a functioning society?
Is there such thing as a utopian society?
How do the need of a society drive technology?
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to:
Humanities
- Explain the purpose of government
- Describe the different types of government
- Evaluate what make a society successful
- Identify the multiple factors that contribute to the success of a society
- Draw connections between a dystopian novel and other attempts at utopia
- Describe Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in relation to society and utopia
- Describe the chemical stucture of water, potential water contaminates and will be able to build a working water purifier
- Identify when the use of specific simple machines can help them make work easier.
- Distinguish between a parallel and serial circuits and be able to construct either
- Construct a battery in a variety of ways and use it to power low voltage load.
- Utilize their understanding of solar power to construct a variety of devices.
- Apply concepts of Force,Work, and Energy