Content area(s): History & Social Studies
Grade levels: middle
Author(s) & location: Mary Deschamp, San Francisco State University
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| ""The Martians," noted Carl Sagan, "will be us." If life has not previously existed on Mars, it's scheduled to exist there by the year 2030. Can you imagine yourself as a Martian architect, sociologist, or fashion designer, living where even colors appear differently than on our earth? This is an opportunity for you and your classmates to imagine, research, and design living and working quarters for a colony of 100 earthling pioneers to live on the surface of Mars for one year, probably 2030. This is a very real mission. NASA is already making plans." "As teams, you are asked to find out how early pioneers solved the problems of building homes and communities in a strange land. These findings help your group make decisions about what difficulties Martian settlers may face." |
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