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While these lessons interrelate and support one another, each can stand alone, and no particular order is required if more than one are being taught.

 
Living on Mars:
 
Living in a Habitat (Free! Click to Download)
Students design a habitat to support a group of explorers on Mars, thinking about their various needs and how to address them in a limited environment. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 
Growing Plants in a Greenhouse (Free! Click to Download)
Students design and run experiments to test the effect of different variables involved in growing plants in greenhouses, as Martian explorers would. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 

Protecting against Radiation (Free! Click to Download)

Students learn about some of the dangers of radiation and how explorers on Mars might deal with those risks. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 
Exploring the Surface (Free! Click to Download)
Students become familiar with some of the challenges of surface operations on Mars, and they participate in simulations of those operations. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 
Searching for Life (Free! Click to Download)
Students learn about the Martian environment, the possibilities for life being there, and the strategies for looking for it. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 
Communicating with People on Mars and on Earth (Free! Click to Download)
Students participate in exercises to help them understand the challenges of communication that Martian explorers would face. For middle school (6-8). (A 4Frontiers Original Lesson Plan)
 
The Earth / Mars Comparison poster is a great compliment for these lesson plans.
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Mars Science Activities:
 
 
Mars and Earth: Science Learning Activities (Free from NASA, click here)
The Mars and Earth activities target the elementary school level, and have been taylored for used in afterschool programming. Each activity explores a concept related ot the nature of science. Students may then put their new knowledge into practice. Most of the nine sequential activities can be completed in about one hour. (A NASA Lesson Plan)
 
 
Exploring Space From Earth:
 
 
Make Your Own Deep Space Network (Free from NASA, click here)
Students can learn about NASA's deep space network while construct a paper model of a data tracking station. For high school (9-12). (A NASA Lesson Plan)

 
"We entered into shadow. Contact with Moscow was gone. Japan floated by beneath us and I could clearly see its cities ablaze with lights. We left Japan behind to face the dark emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. No moon. Only stars, bright and far away. I gripped the handle like a man hanging onto a streetcar. Very slowly, agonizingly, half an hour passed, and with that, dawn on Earth. First, a slim greenish-blue line on the farthest horizon turning within a couple of minutes into a rainbow that hugged the Earth and in turn exploded into a golden sun. You're out of your mind, I told myself, hanging onto a ship in space, and to your life, and getting ready to admire a sunrise." - Valeri Ryumin
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