By Rosemarie Wilson & Eric Meyers

Science Movie Special Effects

By Rosemarie Wilson & Eric Meyers

1. ENGAGEMENT This science fiction DVD was intended to be used on a two consecutive days...one day to SHOW the DVD the second day to do the follow-up activity. 2. USED FOR ANY SCIENCE CLASS The follow-up activity came from a Baltimore City Public Schools APPROVED chemistry textbook, entitlrd Active Chemistry by ____________________ . The lesson focus is: Movie Special effects; How CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, MATH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, etc., concepts are used to help create the exciting movie special effects used in science in thriller blockbuster movies. 3. HOMELAND SECURITY COMPONENT The movie is an action packed thriller about the United States and an attack on our national security Homeland Security. Follow-up will include REAL-WORLD

hypothetical applications FOR Homeland Security A THIRD DAY IS NEEDED can be in the form of MANY activities.

Objectives:
y The Student Will: y OBSERVE a science

Fiction movie, then CREATE a special effects scene based on scientific concepts. y Relate homeland security

CHALLENGE: a simple scene in a movie y 1. WRITE a script for

y y y y y

(related to Homeland Security) 2. CHOOSE some special effects to include as part of your scene. WRITE a procedure WRITE an explanation DEMONSTRATE the special effect Explain the science or math concept

What are special Effects?

y Explosions, fake snow y Car Crashes

..Chemistry .Computer Biology .Math

..Physics y Aliens/Animated characters y Alien Habitats/, artificial skin y Algorithms/binary systems

PLOT
A number of computer hackers upload programs they were paid to code to a woman named Mai Linh. Soon, all of the unknown hackers are killed by explosives wired to their computers. Mai uses the programs to cause a brief computer outage at the FBI Cyber-Security Division in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The FBI responds by initiating a nationwide roundup of all known top hackers. NYPD detective John McClane is assigned to bring a hacker named Matthew "Matt" Farrell into FBI custody. McClane's unexpected arrival stops Farrell from unknowingly triggering the explosives meant for him. Mai has assassins as backup, but McClane protects Farrell and kills most of their attackers. The next day, Mai's boss and companion, Thomas Gabriel, gives her orders to initiate his plot. The first phase involves taking control of the transportation grid (especially traffic lights) and the stock market.

Physics /Chemistry Special Effects yIn the ensuing firefight, McClaine destroys the helicopter with the police cruiser.

Homeland Security Vocabulary

y computer hackers y y y y y

upload programs code computer outage FBI Cyber-Security Division stock market. transportation grid (especially traffic lights) utility superstation

Computers/Math Concepts
y Enraged, Gabriel

redirects all the natural gas in nearby pipelines to the station, but McClane and Farrell escape just before the resulting explosion causes a power outage across the East Coast.

FBI Cyber-Security Division

y Farrell encrypts the

downloaded data to block access to it. y NORAD y command center y satellites

DHS Concepts
y utility superstation y National Security y y y y y

Agency (NSA). to cyber-warfare. Hazmat van stock market. FBI Cyber-Security Division NYPD

Let s watch

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