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Mission to Mars: A Classroom Simulation

Science and Children - February 2002

Upper elementary children build a scale-model Martian habitat by laying a grid over scattered items. They develop science-process skills by conducting research on Mars and evaluating data; mathematics skills by figuring basic population data; and language arts skills by orally communicating procedures and results.

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