Live from Earth and Mars
Two-Day Workshop Schedule

Day 1 Agenda
Time  Activity Notes 
 9:00-9:30  Introduction, greeting, names  "Navigating the World Wide Web" handout
9:30-10:30 Log on, walk-through Website "Walk-Through" handout, begin "Scavenger Hunt"
10:30-11:00 Break Encourage questions from participants, post them on bulletin board
11:00-11:45 Continue worksheets  Finish "Scavenger Hunt"
11:45-12:30 Mars temperature data downloading & analysis "Mars Temperature Data Downloading and Analysis" handout (uses online data for Martian sols 2-7) 
12:30-1:30  Lunch  -- --
1:30-2:30  Life on Mars Discussion of the "Mars Meteorite" by Tony Irving
2:30-3:00  Break -- -- 

3:00-4:00

 Mars/Earth temperature comparison

 "Earth and Mars Temperature Comparison" handout featuring data from an Earth-based "temperature profiler"

 4:00

Day's wrap-up

 Conclude activities, preview tomorrow, request questions for tomorrow.

 

Day 2 Agenda
Time  Activity Notes 
 9:00-9:30  Welcome back  Q & A, overview of yesterday and today, turn in paperwork
9:30-10:30 Climate Inquiry Washington Climate Inquiry" handout
10:30-11:00 Break -- --
11:00-12:15 Choice-time  Choices: try a curriculum module, continue Washington Climate Inquiry, or complete Mars Temperature Analysis
12:15-12:30  Planning Discuss a "follow-up plan" for the next school year. 
12:30-1:30  Lunch  -- --
1:30-2:30  Mars Pathfinder update  Discussion by Jim Tillman
2:30-3:00  Break -- -- 

3:00-4:00

 Wrap-up, Evaluations

 Conclude activities, hand out and collect "Workshop Evaluation"

 

 

© 1998 Live from Earth and Mars, Janice DeCosmo, and Rich Edgerton