Physics, chemistry, and earth science are all around us! This final project will allow you to apply all of your course content to your choice of either a shared personal experience you have lived through, a science fiction short story, or a factual report and preparedness plan for real people in a real community. For this option, you are coming up with a series of detailed strategies and plans on how to deal with a real disaster after it has unfolded. This will be a factual paper and instruction manual, with heavy areas of science reporting in it. First, you will choose an actual natural or man-made disaster. You will report facts about it and connect your event to our class content. Make sure you explain (IN DETAIL) the physics/chemistry/earth science connections. You will also outline the regions of the world/nation that you chose to focus on and create strategies to help those populations most impacted. Discuss the major outcomes/issues that society is likely to face as a result of this and how they can solve their most immediate problems. You must use current data and statistics to back up all your claims and illustrate the devastation it caused. Emphasize future predictions and realistic outcomes (be specific and use data, if available).
please ensure you explain the following in your project…
When connecting to your Physics Unit:
Apply the following three main focal points — how [1] Newton’s Laws of Motion, [2] force or gravity, and [3] wave physics apply to your event (note: you can even look at indirect applications such as sounds or impact waves)
When connecting to your Chemistry Unit:
Apply the following two main focal points — describing [1] the major chemicals involved in your event, their interactions, and their chemical characteristics (ex. gasoline for car crashes, radiation for bombs, sulfur gas for volcanoes, or water for precipitation events and storms, etc.) and [2] the impacts of them on health of humans and the environment
When connecting to your Earth Science Unit:
Apply the following three main focal points — explaining [1] the weather or atmospheric phenomenon and its characteristics, [2] snowballing effect of interactions that could or did occur, and [3] any connections to climate and climate change
