Mission Library

Mars Quarantine

Health
Grades 4-12

The Mission

40 min

Storyline

Created in collaboration with the National 4-H Association

In this fun, general Mission for use in any classroom, the crew will determine the cause of mysterious illnesses across several Mars colonies.

After the arrival of a new colony ship on Mars, several facilities are reporting signs of varying sicknesses. The crew will i******...

3-Dimensional Science

Phenomenon

People are sick and quarantined.

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 observations and/or measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon or test a design solution.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

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

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

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

  • Device for teacher
  • Laptops or iPads for each student in class
  • Large screen to mirror to

Skills in Action

Critical ThinkingCollaborationResilienceProblem SolvingInitiative