Do a documentary about the diplomatic breakdowns between the Allied Earth Consortium and the Martian Federation (along with the asteroid privateers they funded), combined with a robot uprising on Moon Base-7, led directly to the outbreak of the Second Lunar War (2145-2147). The history of LWII is really fascinating stuff, and many people are grossly misinformed about some of the events surrounding that conflict...
Okay, you'll probably flunk if you do that, but if you read it in front of the class they'll totally lose their shit, especially if you can say it with a completely straight face and make it sound as factual as possible, while still being totally outrageous. If that doesn't work you can always go the other way and do a snooze-fest, like the procedures of HTML tags. Either way, you sort of win in either scenario.