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= Welcome!! 2013-2014 Dreams 2 Mars Participants... = = = = We Have Moved. **... Please visit:** []=

__ **Project Goal:** __
== This multi-disciplinary and collaborative project will provide students (Grades 1-12) the opportunity to discover the importance of __exploration__ in history and our future. **Our hope is that this WIKI's pages will be filled with student work and links to other education sites related to exploration on earth and space.** We hope students will share important examples of inventions and their inventors (both men and women), pioneers and visionaries that have made exploration possible yesterday and today. Students will also practice and teach each other how to conduct research and experiments to help them become curious, research minded individuals for the future. Technological, moral, political and philosophical issues related to settlement on Mars will be also be project focus. ==

==__ Where to Start? __ Scan the Dreams to Mars Collaborative Classroom Questions to Explore in the image below and CHOOSE a question your class can explore AND post the results online. (Image is from 2013 San Antonio ISTE Conference exhibit display). ==

__ Teachers __ __**:**__ Email me (lese@muhs.edu) to become an administrator where you can add a page that matches your classroom's project.


__** How do I get involved with other schools? **__

. 1) Post your results online and get noticed by other classrooms. 2) Get together with another class online! Visit our project site at [|education.skype.com]  to collaborate with one of the classrooms involved in this project. nn 3)  Each wiki page has discussion boards where you can share comments and your goals for the project.   4) Click "edit" on top each page and add a lesson plan or share student work.

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to fellow teachers in your school to join in this project.As you click on the following pages you will see there is something for Science, Social Studies, Art, English, Math, geography, Government and Religion teachers to show their student's work to the world on these fascinating topics.

= = = Project Overview: =

== Space exploration is at a fascinating crossroads and the day of permanent human settlement on Mars may be closer than we think. On August 5, 2012, an estimated 3.2 million viewers watched as NASA continued its rover project on the Red Planet with a successful // [|Curiosity] // landing. [|Mars One], a private company, has plans to land people on Mars in 2023 to establish the first human settlement on that planet. According to Mars One, the technology exists to launch a one-way mission and land humans on Mars (and one can imagine more than 3.2 million viewers will watch this occur in a Reality television format). ==

== “Dreams to Mars” will allow classrooms of all ages from around the world to share their research, ideas, and dreams of exploration in the past and in our future. We hope to collaborate through interactive websites l//ike this WIKI//, [|SKYPE] video conferences, blogs, etc. where global students, teachers, and modern-day explorers (Mars One,[| NASA], other space agencies) can all share their ideas and project results that investigate the outlined topics below. Please note these are suggested topics to help guide teachers and classes and any other ideas are welcome! ==

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=** //__Project Organizers:__// **=

Chris Lese – Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - lese@muhs.edu
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