Life on Mars - according to The Martian

Day One of Life on Mars and we will be finding out how it might be to establish life on the red planet. How accurate do you think Hollywood might be when it is depicting the planet? What does it tell us? Using the film 'The Martian' as a resource, we will be looking for facts about the sustainability of human life in a very harsh environment.

To conduct our analysis we will be using this table to record things we notice as we watch:

We will be doing this as a shared class doc, so we will all be helping each other to gather as much information as possible.

What is 'Life on Mars'?

Welcome to Life on Mars!

This course is a social science course designed to work with the Foundation term concept of Space and Place. What this means is that we will be focussing on Learning Objectives around place and environment, and mapping.  This is what they look like:

















More user-friendly versions of these rubrics will be placed in folders in the next week or so - this way students will have a clear idea of what they are working towards through the course of the term.

A rough course outline will involve us looking at what is known about Mars through various resources, both fictional and factual, and then developing our own response by constructing our own Martian colonies.