The Search for Habitable Worlds There are 24 items.
What makes a planet habitable? This collection explores this question with activities curated to engage patrons in the different tools scientists use to discover if a planet is habitable.
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Mars Rovers
1 Review(s)Players acting as "Mission Control" and a "Rover" must work together to navigate a large obstacle course. 2491
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Binary Bead Craft: Bracelet (or Necklace) Version
2 Review(s)Write your own name or nickname in binary code using beads on a bracelet. 3862
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Binary Bead Craft: Pin Version
1 Review(s)Write your initials in binary code to create beaded pins. 1001
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I Want to Hold Your Hand
NASA uses robotic explorers to collect information about places where humans cannot travel. This activity leads patrons to build and test a robotic-like hand. 0
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Passion for Pixels
Learn about how remote-sensing satellites transmit data and digital images by creating an image on grid paper and then use a code of zeroes and ones to transmit the image to a partner 0
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How Do We Find Planets Around Other Stars?
Discover the techniques scientists use to find planets orbiting distant stars: use a foam ball, a toothpick, and a small ball of clay. 0
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Coloring the Universe (with Pencil Code)
Participants use pencilcode.net to undertake a series of simple programming exercises, including recoloring images of scenes, everday objects, and finally, a supernova and a region where stars are forming. 0
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Exploring the Colors of Mars
Patrons examine satellite and rover images to learn about the various surface features that cause the different colors of Mars, then create an art concept of the planet 0
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Animal Remix
1 Review(s)Design a mythical animal through collage and illustration! This activity builds creativity as children combine items in new ways. 373
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Adaptations of Cave Critters
In this activity, patrons explore their creativity while they learn about a cave environment and create an organism that lives there! 0
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Mars Engineering
Mars is a good candidate for finding past and/or present life beyond Earth. Groups of participants design Mars rovers that could search for the building blocks of life in martian rocks and build model rovers out of everyday materials. 0
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Trip to Mars
4 Review(s)Participants play a game that steps through a human mission to Mars, to learn about the variety of people on the ground supporting missions, and the factors that can affect a mission outcome. 21136
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How-to Video Teacher's Guide Provides classroom connections, key concepts, connections to science standards, and additional resources.