Sadly, at the press conference to discuss the landing of the spacecraft, the lead scientist made a wardrobe choice that distracted much of the Internet's attention away from his team’s accomplishments. Mika McKinnon has written a very thoughtful, clever personal essay about the issue: Thanks To That Shirt, We May Get a Shirt Celebrating Women In Science.
Unintended Consequences Assignment: McKinnon's essay is a great opportunity to examine the idea of unintended consequences. This assignment challenges students to read and understand her text and to consider how she maintained a wonderful balance of anger, frustration, humour and purpose in her word choice and ideas to create just the right voice for her text.
Beyond that, students could explore other examples of unintended consequences and create their own blog entries detailing cautionary tales telling the story of a small decision that led to unexpected consequences with interesting links for further exploration.
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