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 * Topic Talk: Event, Issue, or Other Topic of Interest **

** Topic Choice: challenger explosion ** List five facts that you already know about this topic: 1. happened 25 years ago

2. seven people were killed

3. wasn’t up in the air very long before it exploded

4. the launch was delayed a couple times

5. explosion was because of low temperature and o-ring

** Answer these questions about this topic: ** 1. How did it/will it impact the world? It was a big impact on NASA. It was a big surprise and it was so sudden when it happened

2. Why is there still interest in it today, or why will there continue to be interest in it? This explosion shows that you have to really make sure the conditions are just right and that everything on the shuttles are perfect before they can launch.

3. Why are you interested in researching this topic? I wanted to get better information on what exactly happened to the shuttle.

4. How do you personally connect with this topic? My boyfriend got me a little interested in all the NASA stuff and since the anniversary was just in January, it got me interested in researching on this specific launch.

** Resources ** What resources do you think will be useful to you? Specific books? Series of books? Magazines? Periodicals? Interviews? Internet sites? Films? Other? The NASA website, video of it when it happened, other websites,

** Once you have completed worksheets for __TWO__ topics, please answer these two questions; be prepared to discuss your answers in class:  **  1. Of your two topic choices, which one do you think you will find the most information about? Please explain. I think autism is the topic that I will find the most information about. The reason is because since there are different levels to autism, there will be definitions and details to the behavior the children will have to each level.  2. Of your two topic choices, which one do you really like the best? Please explain. I really like the Challenger explosion. I really like to learn about new things. Since I already know about autism, I think it will be nice to learn about something that I don’t have that much knowledge on. Plus, I’m interested in the details that came along with the explosion.