From: Linda Conrad <lindac@quest.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Preview of coming attractions
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 20:08:03 -0700 (PDT)
Hi folks,
The annotated, working copy of the Table of Contents for the Teacher
Guide is online now at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/teachers/tg
Linda
For your convenience, a text version follows:
Live from Mars Teacher's Guide
Table of Contents
as of 9-23-96 (subject to change)
Introductory Articles
* Project Notes
* Letter of welcome from the Project Director and
Executive Producer
* Video, Online and Print: a Guide to the integrated
multimedia components, with specific examples (e.g.
Field Journals, etc.) keyed to an overview of the project
* Teacher-to-Teacher: Live from Mars as an unique
opportunity, Pat Haddon. How to implement the project
over 2 school years, and/or adapt it to local circumstances
NASA's Mars missions timeline, and the Live from Mars
implementation timeline (graphic) Suggestions for
correlations between fixed mission dates (e.g. launch,
landing, etc.), fixed project dates (the live videos) and
other project activities
* Opening Activities: Project Objectives/Program 1
* Activity A-1 -Mars Mission Logbooks: an
assessment tool for students and teachers A way
for students to record and reflect on their
learning experience
* Activity A-2 - Constructing a "History of Mars
Exploration" Timeline the past is prolog...
* Activity A-3 - Become a member of the Live
from Mars Mission Team: an introduction to the
men and women of the MGS and MPF project,
their roles, and an invitation to students to
"imagine" themselves into the project
* Activity A-4 - Mission Planning: Earth/Mars
Comparisons
A-4 Student Worksheet exploring "Same and
Different" features of the two planets
* Activity A-5 - Mission Planning: Geology and
Areology
My state, nation and Mars
Program 1 "COUNTDOWN" Description
* Activity 1.1 Rocket Science 101
Student Worksheets
Experiments with balloon rockets
* Activity 1.2 Mapping the Topography of Unknown
Surfaces a simulation of how MGS's laser altimeter will
be used to create a global topographic map of Mars
* Activity 1.3 Follow the Water -- Investigations with
stream tables
1.3 Student Worksheet
Hands-on experiments to explore the processes which led
to channels on Mars most likely made by running water
Program 2 "CRUISING BETWEEN THE
PLANETS" Description
* Activity 2.1 Observing Mars in the Night Sky
Sidebar: MarsWatch '97, The "Opposition Opportunity"
Building a model to demonstrate Mars' retrograde motion
-- out of students, and how to enlist local astronomers
during the Spring 1997 "opposition" (closest approach of
Mars to Earth.)
* Activity 2.2 Building Rovers out of Junk
Experiments with designs for planetary rovers
* Activity 2.3 Reading the Shapes of Volcanoes on Earth
and Mars
How slope angles can tell us about plate tectonics, and
the past history of volcanoes
Program 3 "TOUCHDOWN" Description
* Activity 3.1The Incredible Light Bulb-Egg Drop
Challenge
sidebar: Pathfinder, the Incredible Bouncing Spacecraft
Engineering to protect a fragile "Descent Module"
* Activity 3.2Creating Craters
3.2 Student Worksheet
Students experiment with mass, velocity and size of
impact bodies, to simulate craters seen on Earth, the
Moon, and Mars
* Activity 3.3Detecting Magnetic Materials in "Martian
Soil"
An activity to provide context for one of MPF's
experiments
Program 4 "WITH PATHFINDER TO MARS"
Description
A note on how to use this taped program to begin the
ongoing project with new students in the new school
year: Activities are drawn from Programs 1 - 3.
Program 5 "TODAY ON MARS" Description
* Activity 5.1 Using Heat Radiation to Characterize a
Planet's Surface
5.1.A, B Inside and Outside Lab Worksheets
An activity to provide context for one of MGS's
experiments, the Thermal Emission Spectrometer
* Activity 5.2 "And here's today's weather on Mars... "
How to access and use the live weather data that will be
coming down from MPF, and the first data from MGS
* Activity 5.3 Sun, Shadows, Surface Structure... and the
Face on Mars
Building and lighting models to show how to interpret
novel landforms
Wrap-Up Activities
* Activity B-1 Been there, Done that... Where Next?
Selecting sites for upcoming missions: synthesizing
project learning to date, and projecting forward
* Activity B-2 The Case for Mars: flags, philosophy, the
future...
* Activity B-3 Assessing the project, and providing
feedback
* Getting the most out of the Online Components
* MultiMedia Resources and Recommendations: books,
video, CD-ROMS, etc.
* Glossary, Vocabulary and Key Concepts
* Science Standards and Themes Matrix, correlating
Activities to the National Standards, and indicating
interdisciplinary connections
Co-packaged materials
* Student Worksheets
* Copy masters of graphics required for the Activities
* A note on Assessment, and EDC's pre-paid registration
postcard
* the Live from Mars poster
* MGS and MPF Fact Sheets (NASA)
* MPF brochure (NASA)