For educators looking for lesson plans about the Red Planet, this resource rich site from NASA and Arizona State University will not disappoint. All lessons meet Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Readers may like to start by perusing About Our Curriculum to understand the background and underlying philosophy of the site. From there, dive into the lessons themselves, which range in subject from conceptual modeling to engineering, and examine such topics as the search for life in our solar system, the ins and outs of rovers on Mars, and the ways in which scientists are currently exploring the surface, soil, geology, air quality, and other details of this "strange new planet."
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