Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Season 1, Episode 3: The Unquiet Dead

SYNOPSIS

The Doctor and Rose travel back through time to Victorian Cardiff, where the dead are walking and creatures made of gas are on the loose. The time travelers team up with Charles Dickens to investigate Mr Sneed, the local Undertaker. [From The Doctor Who Site]




TOPICS:
Charles Dickens
Natural Gas
Tackling a Controversial Issue

NETFLIX:
Any Movie Based on His Work
A Muppets Christmas Carol
GasLand (watch first)
Fracknation (watch second, in close succession)
Magic School Bus: Up & Down

YOUTUBE:


EXPERIMENT:

CRAFT:
Cartesian Diver

FIELD TRIP:
See a Play (preferably a Dickens work)
Gas Works 





Season 1, Episode 2: The End of the World

SYNOPSIS
Its the year Five Billion, and the Doctor and Rose arrive on Platform One to journey through time. The Sun is about to expand and swallow the Earth but, amongst the alien races gathering to watch, a murderer is at work. [From The Doctor Who Site]





TOPIC:
Earth Death

NETFLIX:
Cosmos Series

YOUTUBE:
ONLINE EXPERIMENT:

CRAFT:

FIELD TRIP:
Planetarium


Season 1, Episode 1: Rose

SYNOPSIS:
When Rose Tyler meets a mysterious stranger called the Doctor, her life will never be the same again. Soon she realises that her mum, her boyfriend, and the whole of Earth are in danger. The only hope for salvation lies inside a strange blue box. [From The Doctor Who Site]






TOPIC: 
Plastic

NETFLIX:
Plastics & Recycling
Addicted to Plastic
Plastic Paradise

YOUTUBE:
Plastics & Polymers
From Oil to Plastic
How It's Made: Plastic Bottles
From DNA to Silly Putty

Recycling
Recycling Empty Plastic

Conveyor Belts
'I Love Lucy' Season 2, Episode 1

EXPERIMENT: 
Break down polystyrene

CRAFT: 
Calm Down Bottles

FIELD TRIP:
Recycling Center