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Weekly Activities
Weekly Activities
Choose from 1 of the 2 new Weekly Activities!
Earth Challenge Progress
Earth Challenge Progress
Click on the picture to find my progress and your ACTIVITY. Use my data to answer the questions. Have you chosen a new Earth Saving Goal?
I watched the movie The Martian last week. I planted the sprouted parts of the potato. The tallest stock is now 25 cm. The tall plant in the dark pot is a mandarin orange plant. I planted a mandarin orange seed. It's grown 32 cm in 9 months.
Growing Potatoes on Mars Could Actually Work
Growing Potatoes on Mars Could Actually Work
ACTIVITY: Decode the notes! Turn these point form notes into sentences by adding the small words and punctuation marks. Print or type the sentences in paragraph form. There are 2 paragraphs. Good luck.
you see 2015 movie The Martian?
about astronaut stranded Mars.
Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) survives fertilising Martian soil, slicing up potatoes, planting cuttings soil.
grows food last hundreds days
February 2017, researchers from NASA International Potato Centre Lima, Peru started experiment
put lifeless soil from Peru's Pampas de la Joya desert tubers sealed up rocket- launchable box, called CubeSat
CubeSat rigged pumps, water hoses, LED lights, instruments copy Mars-like temperatures, night-and-day light cycles, gases, air pressure
Filming shows growth happening inside CubeSat
potatoes grown Mars
https://www.sciencealert.com/growing-potatoes-on-mars-might-actually-work-hints-a-new-experiment
BY: DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER, 9 MARCH 2017
EMAILING Mr. Louie?
EMAILING Mr. Louie?
Subject: Book Title ( Earth Challenge, Growing Potatoes)
From: your deltalearns email or parent's email address
Message: Please print your name and name of your teacher in your email. Of course you can tell me about the activity, about the book/graphic novel/magazine hardcopy/ebook you're reading and ask me a question.
Look forward to reading your emails.
Images: Heading pre-teen/middleschoolers - Sarah Pecorino; Owl-reading - ansnuclearcafe.org
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