Trends
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/03/12/5-trends-that-will-drive-the-future-of-technology/
Read this article about the top 5 trends. Based on what the article says, I want you to pick one of the 5 and create an idea that will come from one of these 5 trends in the future. Think about how these current trends relate to what you enjoy doing in your free time and in your life currently and how those my evolve as you go into high school. Create a one page advertisement for your idea either using an app on your iPad, a 3D creation or a one page poster.
Details to this assignment:
Trend Extrapolation is a forecasting technique that assumes that what has occurred in the past and present will provide information to estimate what may happen in the future.
Extrapolate – to estimate beyond the known range based on variables within the known range
Trend – general tendency of events
Forecast – to predict in advance
Bio-engineering
Things that will be Obsolete by 2020 http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020/
NASA Evaluation
http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/spaceday/eval/
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2013/09/life-as-a-teenager-in-1994-2014-and-2034-what-a-difference-a-generation-makes-part-2/
Global Issues
Global Warming
http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/
http://globalwarmingkids.net/
Air Quality
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/
http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html
Water
http://ecology.com/features/population/index.html
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html
http://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEM2WKXJD1E_Earth_0.html
http://www.nyo.unep.org/action/11f.htm
http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/home
http://www.designwater.com/
Pollution
http://tiki.oneworld.net/pollution/pollution_home.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/ocean_pollution.htm
Endangered Animals
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/13-animals/29-engangered-anumals.html
Global Health
http://www.globalhealth.org/childhealth/
Childhood Obesity
http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/newspaper/child-obesity.html
World Hunger
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/
Terrorism
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/thought/terrorist_attacks.html
http://www.42explore2.com/terrorism.htm
Weather
http://www.ready.gov/kids/step3/index.html
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2013/03/12/5-trends-that-will-drive-the-future-of-technology/
Read this article about the top 5 trends. Based on what the article says, I want you to pick one of the 5 and create an idea that will come from one of these 5 trends in the future. Think about how these current trends relate to what you enjoy doing in your free time and in your life currently and how those my evolve as you go into high school. Create a one page advertisement for your idea either using an app on your iPad, a 3D creation or a one page poster.
Details to this assignment:
Trend Extrapolation is a forecasting technique that assumes that what has occurred in the past and present will provide information to estimate what may happen in the future.
Extrapolate – to estimate beyond the known range based on variables within the known range
Trend – general tendency of events
Forecast – to predict in advance
Bio-engineering
- National Geographic: "Spinach Leaf Transformed Into Beating Human Heart Tissue"
- Duke University: "Bioengineered Blood Vessel Appears Safe for Dialysis Patients"
- Biomaterials: "Crossing kingdoms: Using decellularized plants as perfusable tissue engineering scaffolds"
- The Economist: "Printed human body parts could soon be available for transplant"
Things that will be Obsolete by 2020 http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020/
NASA Evaluation
http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/spaceday/eval/
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2013/09/life-as-a-teenager-in-1994-2014-and-2034-what-a-difference-a-generation-makes-part-2/
Global Issues
Global Warming
http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/
http://globalwarmingkids.net/
Air Quality
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/
http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html
Water
http://ecology.com/features/population/index.html
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/mearth.html
http://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEM2WKXJD1E_Earth_0.html
http://www.nyo.unep.org/action/11f.htm
http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=files/home
http://www.designwater.com/
Pollution
http://tiki.oneworld.net/pollution/pollution_home.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/ocean_pollution.htm
Endangered Animals
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/13-animals/29-engangered-anumals.html
Global Health
http://www.globalhealth.org/childhealth/
Childhood Obesity
http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/newspaper/child-obesity.html
World Hunger
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/
Terrorism
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/thought/terrorist_attacks.html
http://www.42explore2.com/terrorism.htm
Weather
http://www.ready.gov/kids/step3/index.html
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm