This is the 2013 Page County Teachers Meeting Powerpoint.

1. Welcome to
Marsville: The Cosmic Village

2. Challenger Center for Space Science Exploration
Exploration is the Essence of Learning!
Challenger Center programs use
students' natural enthusiasm for space
to create innovative learning
experiences for imaginative young
minds.
We're creating a new generation of
explorers.
Inspiring. Exploring. Learning.
It's our mission.

3. In Marsville…
• We believe that Hands On leads to Minds On
• We believe that Space is Cool , Science is
Fun and that makes the Learning a natural
process
excel in the
• We believe that many youth
application of technology that may not have
excelled in traditional academic application
• We believe that REAL-WORLD application of
knowledge makes learning more relevant
• We believe through Marsville we can truly
touch the future

5. What is Marsville?
• Students are organized into teams of 4-5
students/ 3-4 teams per classroom
• Your ultimate mission is to prepare your
team for Link-Up Day

6. Marsville Prep
• Each Team Develops Teamwork
• Designs a Team Mission Patch
• Plans a Team Uniform for Link-Up Day
• Plans a lunch including all 5 food groups and
meeting weight restrictions
• Each Team Adapts Technology
• Learns their Mars ABCs
• Designs a system to support life on Mars using current
and future technology built out of recyclables

7. Marsville Prep
• Each Team Develops Communication
• You must communicate with two other teams that
make up your Habitat Crew on who is bringing what
parts of the habitat for constructing on Link-Up Day
Habitat Habitat Habitat
A A A
Teacher: Hohbach Teacher: Sickles Teacher: Adams
School: ROMS School: ROMS School: ROMS
Team #: 1 Team #: 1 Team #: 3
System: Temp Control System: Air Supply System: Waste Mgt
Email: Email: Email:
kerryh@roschools.com vickis@roschools.com cadams@roschools.com

8. Marsville Prep
• Each Team Develops Communication
• You also will prepare a presentation of your system
including-
– Introductions
– 3 Mars Facts used in designing their system
– A short narrative on how their system will work
– And a Mars Riddle
• You divide your team into two sets of presenters for
Celestial Questial 1 and Celestial Questial 2

9. Marsville Link-Up Day
• Arrive and do Get-Acquainted Mixer
• Weigh-in Lunches
• Launch to Mars Video
• Construct Habitats and Team Evaluation
• Celestial Questial 1
• Lunch, Weigh-in Waste and Sign Support Banners
• Celestial Questial 2
• Habitat Challenge—Emergency Construction
Scenario
• Walk Through
• Clean up and Pack for Home
• Recognition—Certificates/M&Ms

10. Teams Checking in on Link Up day
The science Guys

11. Weighing In Lunches

12. Team Misson Patches

13. Constructing Habitats

14. The door flap is 4 ft
wide by 6 ft long to
cover inside of
opening cut for
entering the habitat
Walls are 8 ft tall by 10 Ceiling and floor are 10 ft by 10 Connecting tunnel is 12
Fan Tunnel is 4 ft long foot long ft ft long and 10 foot
by 10 ft around to fit around to create a tunnel
around fan between habitats

16. Use Lots and Lots of Duct
Tape

17. Constructing the Fan Tunnel

19. Connecting Tunnel

20. Teamwork

21. More construction

22. Student Constructed Systems

23. Radio and Newspaper
Interviews of Mars Travelers

24. Habitats are Up

25. Instructions for Celestial
Questial

26. This is Fun! Living in your
habitat

27. Signing Sponsor Posters

28. Page County Schedule
• May 2 is Marsville Link up Day Prep Week:If needed to
make up for Easter or
Spring Break
M T W T F
First Week: Team Work
18 19 20 21 22 —Mission Patches,
Prep Week Uniform,
Mars ABCs
March 25 26 27 28 29 Second Week: Mars
Begin Marsville Survivor Kits & Marsville
Curriculum Systems Overview
1 2 3 4 5
Begin Researching
Systems
Third Week: Plan Lunch
8 9 10 11 12 Build Systems
Fourth Week: Build Mini
April Habitats, Build Systems,
15 16 17 18 19 Begin Communicaiton
Begin Fifth Week:
Communication
Communication, System
22 23 24 25 26 Presentation, Weigh lunch
Prototype
Sixth Week: Finalize
29 30 1 2 3
Communication, Finalize
System Presentation, Cut
May Communication
Ends
Marsville Link-
UP Day Plastic, Decorate Plastic,
Pack for Link-Up Day
Link-Up Day

29. Marsville BECOMES A
COMMUNITY PROGRAM
• Sponsors
• School Administrators
• Local Media strong support

30. The Success of Marsville
• The most important things learned…
– Teamwork
– Communication
– How to Work and Cooperate with Others
– All the Facts about Mars
• “I know a lot about Mars so now I’m ready to lift off!”
– Planning Ahead
– All the work that needs to be done before the
mission

31. Contacts:
• David Seilstad, ISU Extension
– Phone: 712/644-2105
– seilstad@iastate.edu
• Debbie Swanson, ISU Extension Page
Cty.
– debra@iastate.edu
– Phone: 712/542-5171