Life Straw

The LifeStraw, (also avalible as the LifeStraw Family) is a straw like device through which the user can received clean drink water. It's as simple as drinking through it as is filtered within. They are water filters designed by the Swiss-based Vestergaard Frandsen for people living in developing nations. It supposedly is able to filter 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria and 99.9% of parasites.The LifeStraw Family, a larger unit designed for family use, also filters out 99.99% of viruses. It is supposed to be able to provide one person enough drinking water for one year with the family providing for a family of five for up to three years. These units were distributed during 2010 during the Haiti earthquake and after floods in Thailand and Pakistan. It is currently available for $20 and the family for $100.

Wikis can be used to live share and edit content. In english it could be used to live edit a paper together. In science you can organize and sort your research. this way anyone can edit the information up to the minute without creating multiple copies. We already use them in Social Studies to post and edit papers live with a group. Many sites like wikispaces let anyone with an account make one and we can make one for this class

Invisible Man

If I could be invisible for a day I would probably try to perform as many good deeds as possible. (After some personal fun) I would try to do as much as I could. Preventing murders, stopping train crashes and rescuing babies will be the norm. Everywhere I would go I would leave a symbol, a symbol to show the people the invisible man was here.

Once the day is over and I am (or not) on the news everywhere, I would pas on the cloak to someone else, someone I trust. They would continue my work after me and I would be come the unsung hero of the city. I would further advice all my replacements and make sure my name was going to good use. It would be an underground icon and nobody would dare do wrong out of fear of the man and it would forever be a symbol of good doing.

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If I had the ability to create the course of my choice it would probably be in movie watching and reviewing. It would be held in the theater with the projector projecting the "lessons". Each period will have a theme, maybe a genre or period of time. I would show movies relating to the subject each week and come back around for a major test at the end.

It would begin by first having a lesson and reviewing the subject. We would then take three days to watch a movie of the subject, carefully analyzing and noting how they relate to the subject. We would then fill out a worksheet to review what we watched. We would then have an informal assessment on Friday and another movie of the subject on Monday.