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Books

Reeves-Stevens, Judith: Going To Mars. Pocket Books 2004. ISBN: 0671027964

Getz, David: Life On Mars. Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1997. ISBN: 080503708X

Carlowicz, Michael: Storms From The Sun: The Emerging Science of Space Weather. National Academies Press, 2002. ISBN: 0309076420

Freeman, John W.: Storms In Space. Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0521660386

 

Web Sites

NASA’s Mars Exploration
Explore Mars with cool games, activities, and special events. http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/funzone_flash.html

Space Weather on Mars
Find out what scientists believe weather will be like on Mars when human beings explore the Red Planet. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast01may_1.htm

SOHO – Exploring the Sun
Check out current pictures of the sun and learn how its radiation is affecting space in our solar system. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sindex.html

Solar Flares
This web site helps you explore solar flares, the biggest explosions in the solar system.
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov
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NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS
National Science Education Standards (NSES)

Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (K–8)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry (K–8)

Content Standard B: Physical Science

  • Properties of objects and materials (K–4)
  • Light, heat, electricity, and magnetism (K–4)
  • Transfer of energy (5-8)

Content Standard E: Science and Technology

  • Abilities of technological design (K–8)
  • Understanding about science and technology (K-8)

National Mathematics Education Standards (NCTM)

Algebra

  • • Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements
    • model problem situations with objects and use representations such as graphs, tables, and equations to draw conclusions

Measurement Standard

  • Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements
    • select and apply appropriate standard units and tools to measure length, area, volume, weight, time, temperature, and the size of angles

Data Analysis and Probability Standard

  • Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
    • collect data using observations, surveys, and experiments
    • represent data using tables and graphs such as line plots, bar graphs, and line graphs
  • Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
    • Propose and justify conclusions and predictions that are based on data and design studies to further investigate the conclusions and predictions

International Technology Education Association (ITEA)

Design

  • Standard 10: Students will develop an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving.