Students will be introduced to different types of energy sources, PowerPoint, and a two-stage rocket.

Students will discover “their” world to gain a better understanding of aerospace, renewable and non renewable energy resources and transformations, vocabulary and percentages. Students will demonstrate their new-found knowledge by designing a PowerPoint Presentation. The PowerPoint Presentation will include elements from each subject.

• Checkpoint # 1: November 10 – 14
• Checkpoint # 2: December 8 – 12
• Final Project Due: December 15 - 19

Students will write short personal narratives to introduce themselves and their PowerPoint presentations. They will also create the PowerPoint presentations in which they will share what they have discovered in their other classes. The first checkpoint is the draft of their personal narratives. The second checkpoint is the unedited version of the PowerPoint which will include all content area slides.

Each student will prepare a fact sheet for checkpoint #1 consisting of three renewable and three non renewable resources from North Africa and/or the Middle East. For checkpoint #2, students will create a visual identifying areas in which these renewable/nonrenewable resources are found. The above information will be incorporated into the final PowerPoint Presentation.

Students will be introduced to vocabulary for the integrated project by using the Frayer Model for vocabulary development. Each student will be tested on this knowledge for checkpoint #1. For checkpoint 2, students will write an essay about the rocket launch using the vocabulary for this project. The essay will be included in the final PowerPoint Project.

For checkpoint # 1, the students will record data gathered in Social Studies. For checkpoint #2, each student will develop a graph using percentages that will represent the countries that supply the world with oil. This information will be published in our final PowerPoint Project.

For checkpoint # 1, students will be required to identify energy resources at home or school. For checkpoint #2, students will select an energy resource and will illustrate how it transforms from one type of energy to another. Students will apply their knowledge of energy resources and transformations as it applies to the rocket launch in their final PowerPoint project.

Student will build a two-stage rocket, fly and track it (checkpoint #1). The track data will be used to determine altitude (checkpoint #2). This information will be published in our final PowerPoint Project.