9/29/16 -Maeve McVeigh

    In Sci-Fi today we started off class with Mr. Rivers reading a passage from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He read this passage because it relates to the video he played thereafter.  The video showed an interview with Elon Musk.  Elon is sending spaceships to Mars. When asked, he declared he will be the naming the first ship to fly to Mars “The Heart of Gold”. This brings it back to why Mr. Rivers read the passage to us, because in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox is called “The Heart of Gold”. Elon is honoring the novel by using this name for the first ship.

   After discussing the passage and interview, we spent the rest of the class period discussing and working on our projects regarding Chaos Theory.  For the Chaos Theory project we must choose an audience and then discover a way we will explain Chaos Theory to said audience.  There are many varieties of how to present this. Such as, PowerPoint presentation, videos which can include songs, or act as an episode, they can also be presented in person in class. Depending on their audience, it will affect how Chaos Theory is taught. If it is being taught to children it will have to be taught in simple way they’ll understand. Some will choose to teach in a comedic way such as the characters of Community had done when demonstrating Chaos Theory through a game of Yahtzee. This project allows a great amount of artistic freedom, which should result in a variety of creative displays explaining Chaos Theory.