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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.

Timeline

0:00

Mission Start and Briefing

2:05

Undocking

5:05

Problem 1 - Suspicious Sniffles

6:21

Mars Arrival

6:31

Descend to Planet

11:47

Culminating Moment 1

20:09

Culminating Moment 2

23:29

Investigation

29:59

Culminating Moment 3

32:44

Mission End

33:01

End

Skills in Action

CollaborationCommunicationCritical ThinkingData LiteracyDecision-MakingDigital LiteracyInitiativeMetacognitionProblem SolvingResilience