Mars Live!
MISSION
"To know the world one must construct it."
-Cesare Pavese

Your assignment is to design a colony on Mars and submit a labeled drawing and a one-page description of how it works  via the Comm Link.

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Assignment – Mars Live!

Your assignment for this lesson is to design a colony of 100 persons for the planet Mars. 

First, make a list of the people and their jobs, then add the facilities and transportation (or other special requirements) each of those positions would need. 

Choose a location on the planet, and lay out where each of your buildings will go. Draw the colony as you would a bird's-eye map and submit the map (labeled) with the written text (1-page) describing the colony's components via the Comm Link.

Make sure you include the following:

  • Colony location on Mars 
  • Living quarters 
  • Working facilities (shops, factories, laboratories) 
  • Recreation facilities 
  • Transportation systems 
  • Energy source (power plants) 
  • Recycling systems for air, water, and waste 
  • Food production systems 
  • Colony structure (constitution, government, laws, flag) 
Feel free to use the resources at Reaching for the Red Planet to start!  This is a very good example of a Martian colony developed by students that you can use as a reference, and here is another one.  NASA's FAQ on Human Mars Missions has some good ideas for a Mars Colony.

Your assignment will be assessed using the following criteria. If your work meets all of the criteria below it will be considered exemplary. If one or two of the criteria are not met your work will be considered satisfactory. If more than three criteria are not met your work will be considered unsatisfactory and you will be asked to resubmit. 
 
 
Unit 11        
Assignments Content Grammar Creativity/Originality Length
Colony Design Drawing The drawing is a bird's eye view of a Mars colony and includes all of the required elements as in the description below. The drawing is properly labeled. The colony design is original and clearly drawn. The drawing is submitted as a .jpg.
Colony Design Description The description includes the required elements:
  • Personnel and jobs 
  • Colony location 
  • Living quarters 
  • Working facilities 
  • Recreation facilities 
  • Transportation 
  • Energy source 
  • Recycling systems 
  • Food production 
  • Colony structure
 Description is grammatically correct and free of spelling errors. Description is interesting to read, flows well and is easy to understand.  Description is at least 500 words.

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