Voyage to Mars Teacher's Guide

MARS - THE RED PLANET POWERPOINT

Made possible in part by STScI/NASA IDEAS Grant Program HST-ED-90285.01-A

Authored by: Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana (Lisa Austgen, Rebecca Manis),
Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum (Janet Moore, Stacey Shrewsbury),
Illinois State University (Carl J. Wenning), Tarleton State University (Shaukat Goderya),
and Glenn Elementary School of Normal, Illinois (Cathy Bissoondial)

Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum
and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana.

(Last updated 7/16/2007)

Welcome to the Voyage to Mars Teacher's Guide. Here you will find curriculum and instructional materials for implementing a 4-6 week unit associated with the Challenger Learning Center mission by the same name. This unit provides for 3-4 weeks of pre-mission activities, and for several days of post-mission activities. Whole chapters of the Teacher's Guide may be downloaded as PDF's by clicking chapter titles; sections of each chapter may be downloaded individually by clicking section headings.

Chapter 1:
INTRODUCTION
  • Problem-Based Learning
  • PBL Benefits
  • PBL Methodology
  • Cooperative Learning
  • The Role of the Teacher in PBL
  • PBL Climate Setting
  • Setting Rules of Social Engagement
  • PBL Mentoring
  • PBL Assessment
  • References
 
Chapter 2:
EXTREME TRAVEL ADVENTURE CHALLENGE
 
Chapter 3:
VOYAGE TO MARS - MISSION BASICS
 
Chapter 4:
WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITIES
   
  General Mars Information:
  Communications Practice:
  Following Directions:
  Problem Solving:
   
Chapter 5:
TEAM TRAINING
 
Communication (COM)
   
  Data (DATA)
 
 
Isolation (ISO)
 
Life Support (LS)
 
Medical (MED)
   
Navigation (NAV)
 
Probe (PROBE)
 
Remote (REM)
 
Press (PRESS)
 
   
Chapter 6:
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS
 
  Language Arts
 
   
  Mathematics
 
   
  Science
 
   
  Social Studies
 
   
Chapter 7:
POST-MISSION ACTIVITIES
 
   
Chapter 8:
ASSESSMENT
 

Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555.