Voyage
to
Mars
Introduction to Mars
Research Tasks
The Process
Mission Teams
Participation
Pre-Mission Activities
Mission Overview
Post-Mission Activities
Team Reflection
Resources
Credits
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Pre-Mission Activities
Your teacher will inform you about which of the following
activities you will conduct and when you will do so.
WHOLE GROUP ACTIVITIES
General Mars Information: |
- What Do You Know About Mars (Pretest)
- Vocabulary/Vocabulary Activities
- Crossword
- Word Search
- Why Do We Explore?
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Communications Practice: |
- Can We Talk??!!
- Legos Experiments
- Loooong Distance Communication
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Following Directions: |
- Task Card Practice/Airplane Activity
- Can You Follow Directions?
- Your Teacher is a Mind Reader
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Problem Solving: |
- Egg Drop
- Mission Survival
- Who Goes?
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TEAM ACTIVITIES
Communications (COM) |
- Communication Coding
- Choose Your Words Wisely
- Forming an Image with Pixels
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Medical Team (MED) |
- Reaction Time Test/Reaction Lab
- The Mirror Maze: Distortion in Space
- Pulse and Blood Pressure/Astronaut Heart Rates
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Isolation Team (ISO) |
- Radiation Activity
- Humans and Robots
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Life Support Team (LS) |
- Acids and Bases
- Hydroponics
- Identifying and Reading Lab Equipment
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Data Team (DATA) |
- Cryptograph-Decoding Practice
- Good Vibrations
- Keyboard Practice
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Navigation Team (NAV) |
- Communication Practice
- Longitude and Latitude
- Navigation and Trajectory/Plotting the Paths of Spacecraft
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Probe Team (PROBE) |
- Building a Spacecraft
- Circuitry
- Moon Hunt
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Remote Team (REM) |
- Rock Classification
- Reading Equipment with Scales
- Life Check
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Press Team (PRESS) |
- Lab: Video Team
- The 5 W's
- An Eye for Details
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Individual Research:
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Each member of your team should research his or
her assignment using the “Resources” page, and find the
answers to the assigned questions. By no means, however, limit yourself
to only the questions
listed. If something catches your eye as interesting that you were
not aware of before, make note of it. After doing your research,
you should be able to answer each question provided on the Research
Tasks
page at the very least.
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Make sure to keep track of
resource references used for your research as well as the use of
any important quotations found throughout your research.
Sharing Research
Findings:
- After each member has finished the appropriate research, your
group members will meet to share your findings with your other
group members.
Class time will be provided for all groups to meet; however,
there will be a limited amount of class time, so be prepared when
it is time
to share your research findings. This will
help
to ensure that every member in the group is knowledgeable of
the topics researched by the other group members and will allow
every member to
participate with other group discussions.
Informational Resource:
- To prepare for your congressional hearing, your team must produce
one of the three following types of visual aids: a brochure (plus
enough copies to go around to everyone in the class), a poster
large enough to be seen by everyone in the class, or a PowerPoint
presentation to describe your findings and the role of your team.
- See the "Evaluation" page in order to determine what
should be included in the visual aid.
Congressional Hearing:
- Your group will prepare an oral presentation communicating your
findings. The oral presentation must incorporate your visual
aid that helps to present the information.
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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.
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Last updated 7/16/2007
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