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Mars
Millennium Project
Power
Point Presentations
Comic
Strips
Survey
Energy
Living
in Extreme Conditions
Math
Connections
Social
Studies Connections
NASA
Connect
NFSI IV Mars Millennium Mars Millennium teachers are exploring Mars in education projects sponsored through the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum.Plans are underway to develop a permanent community on Mars. The goal is to have the community established by the year 2030. Students of Shelly Peretz, Kathy Kreidler, Sylvia Tufts, Kim McNamara, Gary Fryrear, and Rob Bell participated in the project.
Thornridge students conducted a survey to determine how the public feels about building a community on Mars.
Once the survey data was analyzed, the final product was the creation of a brochure, newspaper article, poem, skit, pamphlet or PowerPoint presentation.
Next, students participated in an Energy Summit. They used visual aids to present. Students had to decide, by consensus, which energy source is most suitable for use on Mars. Students then wrote "letters" to NASA justifying their choice.
Science students were also asked to develop a comic strip to demonstrate what they knew about Mars. The best of the comic strips were also entered in the Amazing Kids! comic strip contest and will also be on display at the Amazing Artists! Gallery site.
Social studies students developed a Mars Constitution and math students investigated the tools and techniques used by NASA aeronautical engineers.
Students performed library and internet research in the Thornridge Media Center, beginning with links posted on the Media services site.
