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Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Viking Mission to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides thorough background information on the Viking Missions and links to detailed data and images.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Planets

For Students 3rd - 5th
This survey of the planets includes all the basics, size, mass, atmosphere, length of day, and the like. It features interactive activities and learning exercises and compares all of the planets in colorful tables.
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Interactive
NASA

Nasa: Follow Curiosity's Descent to Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
The Curiosity rover set out to answer the question: Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes? The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to the surface...
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Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a general overview of all the planets in the solar system, as well as the sun, various comets and asteroids, the deep space network, and the latest solar system news.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Mars Exploration: Fun Zone: Mars for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find links to engaging games, activities, billion-pixel images and much more about Mars.
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Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Solar System Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Enter our solar system to interact with the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and more. Investigate with NASA scientists and explore missions related to space exploration. Read facts, compare statistics, look through resources, and...
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Mars Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the exploration that has taken place on the red planet.
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Unit Plan
Other

Mars Quest Online: The Red Planet

For Students 9th - 10th
Collect facts, engage in simulations, and explore Mars with the tools provided.
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Unit Plan
Other

Mars Quest Online: Martian Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
Get all of the facts and experience interactive exercises featuring the volcanoes found on Mars .
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Interactive
NASA

Nasa: Eyes on the Solar System

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Are you ready to ride the Curiosity to the surface of Gale crater? This 3-D environment created with NASA mission data allows students to experience space and time. With this website students can also hop on an asteroid, fly a Voyager...
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Activity
NASA

Nasa: Imagine Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
The Imagine Mars Project encourages students to design a community on Mars in the future. Links allow you to get teacher resources, information about Mars, and examples of other student projects.
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Website
BBC

Bb Ci Space: Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a journey through the solar system with this interactive guide. Includes planetary history, "travel information," "tourist highlights," and video clips. Games and quizzes include a Solar System jigsaw that prompts the student to...
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Website
European Space Agency

European Space Agency: Mars Express

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and news of the European Mars Express includes color pictures, video talk, videos, 3D model and animation.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Solar System Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
This stunning site on the solar system gives a great overview of the planets and our sun. Learn about each object's size, vital statistics, and moons. Then go on for a more in depth look at these objects in the column on the left.
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Interactive
Google

Access Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
Access Mars lets you explore a 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity rover.
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Handout
Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: Solar System: Mars

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn the basic facts about the planet Mars. The brief, to the point text makes this site most suitable for younger researchers.
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Activity
NASA

Nasa : Five Things About Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the Mars Curiosity Rover, a movable robotic laboratory designed to explore the surface of Mars.
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Lesson Plan
Cengage Learning

Mission to Mars: Project Based Learning

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will plan a human expedition to the planet Mars. Through this project-based activity, they can choose to learn about the surface of Mars, the trip route, the analogical features between Mars and Earth, nutrition and exercise, or...
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Website
Arizona State University

Asu: Mars Student Imaging Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about Mars and related subjects through an incredible set of activities developed with inquiry learning in mind.
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Handout
Cosmos 4 kids

Cosmos4 Kids: Viking and Voyagers

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how about the Voyager and Viking probes that explored Mars for NASA. Learn how the data the probes send back help scientist explore Mars from Earth. Also included is a video on the next tools that will be used to explore space.
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Graphic
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Science World of Astronomy: Snc Meteorites

For Students 9th - 10th
View a chart displaying various kinds of meteorites collected on earth and read a technical article describing the manner in which they are studied. Provides a link to more information about the planet Mars and the role it plays in the...
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Website
University of California

University of California Berkley: The Mars Microphone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is all about the Mars Microphone. It explains that it is an experiment that determines what sounds would be heard on Mars.
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Website
Nine Planets

The Eight Planets: Just for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a clear, simple picture of the solar system. Click on the names of the planets to learn more about each. Clicking on underlined terms takes you to more and more detailed scientific information.
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Astronomy: In Pictures: Beyond Planet Earth

For Students 3rd - 5th
What would it be like to travel across the solar system and explore space? Take a look at some of the places that humans might go to someday, and the questions that scientists are asking.