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Landing Safely on Mars

Science and Children—January 2012

While designing and building "Mars Landers," fourth-grade students engage in important engineering practices such as making models, testing designs, and comparing the effectiveness of different models. Students also create nonfiction books as they learn about different objects in the solar system.

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