Interplanetary Travel Guide

Short Description
Travel Guide. Your team will work together as a travel company to try to attract … The class can present the Interplanetary Travel Guide in the form of a …

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Content
Interplanetary Travel Guide
Objective:
This activity will allow students to imagine that they are living on Mars
and take on the roles of specialists working with travel agents who are
trying to attract tourists to the Red Planet.
National Science Education Standards:
Standard A: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
Standard D: Earth in the Solar System
Standard F: Personal Health
Materials:
Name tags per group: Meteorologist
Geologist
Mission Specialist
Journalist/Reporter
Archivist/Historian
Graphic Designer
Materials to research Mars (Internet access, encyclopedias,…)
Exploration:
1. Place students into groups of six. If there are students left over, you can have more
than one journalist/reporter per group, combine the jobs of historian and graphic
designer, or make another whole team. Pass out the appropriate name tags.
2. Read this introduction to the students:
“Congratulations! You have been selected to create the first ever Interplanetary
Travel Guide. Your team will work together as a travel company to try to attract
tourists to the first space colony resort on Mars.”
3. Explain the roles of each person in the group:
Meteorologist:
- will research and create an atmospheric habitat that will enable appropriate
weather conditions to attract…