Live From Mars ended in December 1997. Please see Mars Team Online for a more recent project about Mars.

An Adobe Acrobat version of the entire Teacher's Guide is available. This version preserves all formatting from the original hardcopy Guide; it will provide an easy source for downloading a printable version of the Guide.

Student Activity Sheets and Supplementary Graphics in HTML and GIF format

Introductory Articles

• Letter of welcome from the Project Director and Executive Producer
• Video, Online and Print: a Guide to the integrated multimedia components
• Teacher-to-Teacher: Live from Mars as a unique opportunity
• Note on Assessment
• NASA's Mars mission objectives, and Live from Mars goals

Opening Activities

• Activity A.1 - Mars Mission Logbooks: an assessment tool for students and teachers
  
• Activity A.2 - Become a Member of the Live from Mars Mission Team
  
• Activity A.3 - Mission Planning: Earth/Mars Comparisons
  
• Activity A.4 - Mission Planning: Geography
  

Program 1 "COUNTDOWN"

• Activity 1.1A Rocket Science 101
  
• Activity 1.1B Rockets and Payloads
  
• Activity 1.2 Mapping the Topography of Unknown Surfaces
• Activity 1.3 Follow the Water -- Investigations with stream tables

Program 2 "CRUISING BETWEEN THE PLANETS"

• Activity 2.1 Observing Mars in the Night Sky
  Part 1 Modeling Martian Motion
  Part 2 Mars: Off the Charts--until YOU put it there!
  
• Activity 2.2 Reading the Shapes of Volcanoes on Earth and Mars
  
• Activity 2.3 Rovers from junk
  

Program 3 "TOUCHDOWN"

• Activity 3.1 The Incredible Light Bulb-Egg Drop Challenge
  
• Activity 3.2 Creating Craters
  
• Activity 3.3 Detecting Magnetic Materials in "Martian Soil"
  

Program 4 DESTINATION MARS

How to use this taped program to begin the ongoing project with new students in the new school year: Activities are drawn from Programs 1 - 3.

Program 5 "TODAY ON MARS" Description

• Activity 5.1 "Today's weather on Mars..."
  
• Activity 5.2 Sun, Shadows, surface Structure... and the Face on Mars
  

Closing Activities

• Activity B-1 A Flag for Mars
  
• Activity B-2 "Where Next?" Selecting sites for upcoming missions: synthesizing project learning to date
  
• Activity B-3 "To Terraform or Not..."
  
• Getting the most out of the On-line Components
  
• Glossary Vocabulary and Key Concepts
  
• MultiMedia Resources: books, video, CD-ROMS, etc.
  
• Science Standards and Themes Matrix, correlating Activities to the National Science Education Standards.