DISCOVER Students Discover the Introduction slide Computers Time DAYS 5 9 – with Planet Mars and the with community Becoming Martian Experts 2 hr/day Internet challenges the Name. Access at – environment will pose to Students will participate in a Mars leaset one Slides that explain human existence. Webquest: Students choose expert per 2 where the students. roles and research Mars. They then Students become community is Copy of brainstorm and come up with and identify located, “experts” Mars solutions for the challenges the martian environment Webquest Mars environment will pose to how it will be challenges (available at human existence. They will protected, ) Students use their answer: how they will have expertise to develop Where their community is food,water and solutions for the first located in a crater, at the air. – martian inhabitants. poles, etc. These can be Their plan to protect from the specified, or we can harsh martian environment. let students decide how to put them Their plan for food and water together themselves. and oxygen. IMAGINE
DISCOVER Students Discover the Planet Mars and the challenges the environment will pose to human existence. Students become “experts” and identify martian environment challenges Students use their expertise to develop solutions for the first martian inhabitants. DAYS 5 – 9 Becoming Martian Experts Students will participate in a Mars Webquest: Students choose expert roles and research Mars. They then brainstorm and come up with solutions for the challenges the Mars environment will pose to human existence. They will answer: Where their community is located – in a crater, at the poles, etc. Their plan to protect from the harsh martian environment. Their plan for food and water and oxygen. Introduction slide with community Name. Slides that explain where the community is located, how it will be protected, how they will have food,water and air. These can be specified, or we can let students decide how to put them together themselves. Computers with Internet Access – at leaset one per 2 students. Copy of Mars Webquest (available at ) Time 2 hr/day IMAGINE