October Sky

In the movie October Sky, there were connections to math and science, and Character Education. The connection of rockets with math and science is obvious because to make rockets and finding out how far it will go has to do with math equations as the variable X for how far the rocket would go. The coal mines was connected with math because of how far down deep the coal miners went and the pressure increases as you farther keep going down. And the coal is used to be burned so there would be heat from it. Science fair id all about science and math. Without any math, you can't do science. But with no science, you can do math. The relations for sputnik and the Russians is that Sputnik is a satellite that reflects rays and signals. For math, rays and signals are calculated by waves lengths. Using the lengths and how much materials they used proved their innocence because Homer used Calculus to figure it out on his own. He even used the path of the wind and the wind speed to lead him to the rocket. Plus the health dangers from the coal mines are very hazardous and can be vital. The amount of chemicals int the air which cause lung disease and the hazards from digging hence the cave may fall down on people, also the elevator may get stuck on the way down and all of these troubles can take up time for mining process.

Everyone in the rocket science team used cooperation. Without cooperation, the team wouldn't have made the rockets TOGETHER! Assertion is to have a positive attitude, the whole team had asserions and they finally were able to have their rockets made and tested out. Furthermore, everyone respected eachother in order to work together. In addition, the one who encouraged Homer the most was his teacher because he was the one who inspired him to make rockets. She wanted him to live his dream. Even the townspeople respected this group of scientists for their work and respected Homer even more because he was motivated in making rockets and won the Science Fair award. Dollowing the award, Homer was able to go to a really good educated place when done with school and graduation. The definition of empathy is to be understanding. For example, Mr.Hickam wasn't very understanding when Homer said that he wanted to be a rocket scientist. Also for example, Homer's friends had empathy when Homer wanted to work on rockets. Instead of not joining him at the 'nerd's' lunch table, they came to help Homer and cooperate. Next, Mr.Hickam didn't have self-control to have any empathy on Homer when he was going to go out of state to present at the Science Fair. He just burst out arguing and yelling at Homer and Homer argued back. When Mr.Hickam did have self-control, he lastly helped Homer in delivering the peices of rocket which were stolen from the Science Fair display.