| Overall: | C+ |
|---|---|
| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | C+ |
| Language: | C |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A- |
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| Video Release: | 27 Mar 2006 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
A simple intrusion on the biosphere leads to significant changes to the future in this film. What environmental decisions from the past may be presently affecting us? What kind of effect could the personal choices you are making now have on your future—physically, financially, academically etc.? Without traveling back in time, are there ways for you to undo the consequences that follow?
Dr. Rand is the scientist who develops the time travel computer. How does her intentions for the program differ from Charles Hatton’s? In what other ways can scientific discoveries be altered for more profitable or private activities?
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