Mission of the project
Mission of the project
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Your mission is to take your yearlong learning and apply it in developing a Mars Colony that would sustain a minimum of 4 humans. You will utilize skills from science and math to help you design your habitat, determine what crops to grow, calculate food needed to survive until crop harvest, and maintain a suitable atmosphere inside the habitat for 4 humans. You will then apply what you have learned in religion, history, and ELA to bring this experience full circle. This project will compile all the knowledge you have learned throughout the year and allow you to test ideas in the SIMOC (Scalable, Interactive Model of an Off-world Community) simulation software. Finally, you will share this at Curriculum Night on May 16 with students, parents, and the greater school community.
Special Thanks to: SIMOC at Arizona State University and their Interplanetary Initiative, National Geographic, and Standford University for making this project manageable and providing the base curriculum for all the activities you will experience on the following pages.
Pre-Mission Task
Pre-Mission Task
Patch Design:
Patch Design:
The first part of the project begins with the design of a mission patch. You will watch a short video on mission patch design. Then you will design a rough design of the patch you would create. An example of a patch is shown to the left.
You must include the following
The Last name of each person in your group
The year
A mission name
The graphics must be something that every member of your group agrees should be on the patch
Our World: Mission Patches - YouTube Learn how NASA Designs Patches
What do humans need to live away from Earth, especially with a 3-year round-trip time frame to Mars? 2D Paper models. Engineering Design Process
What does mass have to do with habitat design? Research shipping material to space. What needs to be considered? Assembly? Materials to use?
Task Three: Calculating daily caloric intake and determining what crops to grow based on human caloric needs and cellular respiration.
Task Three: Calculating daily caloric intake and determining what crops to grow based on human caloric needs and cellular respiration.
How do you stay healthy and happy in a sealed habitat for several years? Testing your information with the SIMOC software.
A description of an effort and why it matters? Testing your information with the SIMOC software.
Biblical references to overcoming and trusting God in everything you do. The phrase "In God we Trust" has been associated with NASA Space Missions
Task 6: Humanity: How history has played a role in the advancements in technology needed to colonize Mars
Task 6: Humanity: How history has played a role in the advancements in technology needed to colonize Mars
Students will apply what they have learned in history and apply it to this project the future of human culture off-world.
Students will apply art and engineering techniques to build 3D replica mars colonies.
Newspaper article or infographic, and a reflection of the whole colony building process.
In PE class you will participate in challenge activities similar to those that Astronauts have to endure when becoming an astronaut.
You will need to include specific genres.
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