Mars Storm Chasers
Mars Weather
Grades 4-12

The Mission

34 min

Storyline

Created in collaboration with the National 4-H Association

In response to a massive storm raging across Mars, students will investigate three disasters and determine how to reduce the effects of the storm.

We have received multiple distress calls from our Mars colonies and are sent to investigate. Storms have been raging acr******...

3-Dimensional Science

Phenomenon

A massive storm is raging across Mars.

Science and Engineering Practices

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Ask questions about what would happen if a variable is changed.
Ask questions that can be investigated and predict reasonable outcomes based on patterns such as cause and effect relationships.

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

Make predictions about what would happen if a variable changes.

Developing and Using Models

Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/or computation.

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect

Students routinely identify and test causal relationships and use these relationships to explain change. They understand events that occur together with regularity might or might not signify a cause and effect relationship.

Resources

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