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Looking for life elsewhere in the solar system means that we need to know how to identify characteristics of life. To do that, we must understand life here on Earth, particularly in the extreme. Knowing what life is like on Earth can then be used to look for life Out There. Many curricula could incorporate these activities: biology, environmental science, astronomy, earth science, aquatic science, life science.
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General Description: |
Participants observe teacher-made creatures and record data simulating future sample return. |
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Content Standard: |
Life Science: Understand Biological Evolution |
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General Topic: |
Sample Collection & Examination |
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General Description: |
Participants draw creatures based on literary readings.
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General Topic: |
Earth and Space Science |
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General Description: |
Participants examine the relationship between temperature and the growth and survival of organisms in extreme environments. |
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Content Standard: |
Life Science: Regulation and Behavior |
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General Description: |
Participants create, construct, and write about a type of organism that might survive in the Martian environment. |
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Content Standard: |
Life Science: Organisms and their environment |
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Source: |
Destination: Mars
(Lesson 5, Activity 3) |
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General Description: |
Activity 3- What Makes a World Habitable: Participants Assess the possibility of life in the solar system.
Activity 4- What Can Life Tolerate?: Participants play Life on Edge, a rummy-type game, to explore the idea that organisms living under extreme conditions on Earth can serve as analogs for possible extrerrestrial life. |
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Content Standard: |
Life Science: Matter, Energy and organization in living systems |
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Source: |
Life on Earth and Elsewhere? |
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General Description: |
Participants gain appreciation for the importance of relative size and morphology in identifying microscopic structures as viewed with the scanning electro microscope. In this activity, participants sequence unlabeled electron micrographs. |
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Content Standard: |
Science and Technology: Understand about Science and Technology |
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General Topic: |
Size and Shape Comparisons |
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General Description: |
Participants consider what scientists look for when searching for traces of extinct life on another planet. |
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Content Standard: |
Life Science: Regulation and Behavior |
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