The University of Houston, the Texas Learning and Computation Center, and AIAA Houston Section Present:

The 2009-2010 Mars Rover Model Celebration

January 30, 2010, 12:00-6:00 pm,
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Curriculum and Resources

This page contains links to curriculum resources  that we've found useful and collected here for your convenience.

Curriculum

Mars Rover Lesson Plan

A six week lesson plan for teaching the Rover contest as a curriculum unit.
By: Cherri Brinley
Last Update: October, 2005
Available in: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Web sPage

Mars Rover Standards Matrix

The Mars Rover Model Competition Curriculum Unit does not to be regarded as time taken out from the task of addressing TEKS and National curriculum standards. The program is very rich in the scope and depth of the standards that are addressed. This document lists the standards that are addressed and breaks them out by major element in the Mars Rover Program.
By: Chad GoGan
Last Update: October, 2005
Available in: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Web Page

Quick Glance Mars Rover Standards Matrix

The Mars Rover Model Competition Curriculum Unit does not to be regarded as time taken out from the task of addressing TEKS and National curriculum standards. The program is very rich in the scope and depth of the standards that are addressed. This document presents a tabular summary of the standards that are addressed and breaks them out by major element in the Mars Rover Program.
By: Chad GoGan
Last Update: October, 2005
Available in: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Web Page

Mars Resources

The following material as a downloadable page. 

By:           Holly Smith
Date:         August 31, 2002
Distribution: Internal
Formats:      .pdf, .doc, HTML
Bookmark:     MarsResources

Mars Resources

Websites 
  By: Holly Smith
  Date: August 31, 2002 
  Formats: HTML 
  Bookmark: Websites

Planetary Information:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/

Go to this site, write in the "search" area ----Mars. All the sites on Spirit and Opportunity and videos about Mars and plans NASA has for Mars exploration are there.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.html

http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/index.html

http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/antmet/marsmets/contents.htm

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/map_lab.html

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm

Mars Missions:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/index1.html

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/

Mars & Space Resources for Teachers:

http://www.aiaa.org/

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. They offer educator associate memberships for free. Once a member, educators can apply for $200.00 scholarships (which you know). This money will help to offset the cost to the teacher for this program----paper, glue guns, glue sticks, lava rocks, etc.

Johnson Space Center Educator Resource Center Space Center Houston 1601 NASA Rd. 1 (281-244-2129)

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/

http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/Education/activities/destmars/destmars.htm

http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex

http://www.nasaexplores.com

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/default.htm

http://www.mars2030.net/

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/Curriculum.Support/Space.Science/Our.Solar.System/Mars/.index.html

Educational Briefs

 
By:           Holly Smith
Date:         August 31, 2002
Formats:      HTML
Bookmark:     Educational Briefs

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/.index.html - EB

Exploring Mars – EB1999-02-128-HQ

Is There Water on Mars> - EG-2000-03-121-HQ

Educational Wallsheets

 
By:           Holly Smith
Date:         August 31, 2002
Formats:      HTML
Bookmark:     Educational Wallsheets

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/.index.html - EW

Earth & Mars – As Alike As They Are Different – EW-2002-06-009-JPL

Mars Pathfinder Poster – EW-1997-08-128-HQ

Pathfinder – EW-1999-04-003-DFRC

Lithographs

 
By:           Holly Smith
Date:         August 31, 2002
Formats:      HTML
Bookmark:     Lithographs

Searching for Water and Climate Change Near the Martian South Pole: Mars Polar Lander – LG-1999-09-003-JPL

Mars Pathfinder Lithograph Set –

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Mars.Pathfinder.Lithograph.Set/

Mars Lithograph –

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional.Materials/NASA.Educational.Products/Solar.System.Lithograph.Set/Mars/

Videotapes / CD-ROMS / Slide Sets

 
By:           Holly Smith
Date:         August 31, 2002
Formats:      HTML
Bookmark:     Videotapes

CORE – Central Operation of Resources for Educators list of Multimedia on Mars –

http://catalog.core.nasa.gov/core.nsf/CoreWtype?SearchView&Query=mars

Mars – Past, Present, FutureVHS Video & CD-ROM– Finley-Holiday Film Corp.www.finley-holiday.com

Pathfinder and Best of Mars Picture CD – Finley-Holiday Film Corp. www.finley-holiday.com

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.doc    Microsoft Word
.rtf    Rich Text
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.tar    archive file for UNIX
.pdf	Adobe Acrobat portable document file
.ppt    Microsoft Power Point
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