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Mars Collection of Educational Resources: 7. pH of Mars

In this lesson, we will be looking at the pH of certain environments of Mars and how this can affect its potential habitability.

Overview

Activity Outline: Understand how the pH of the Mars may affect the habitability of the Red Planet. 

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Understand pH scales
• Describe how factors on Mars can affect pH
• Discuss how pH affects habitability.

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Mars Collection of Educational Resources: 6. Evaporation and States of Matter

In this lesson, we will be looking at the development of salt beds and the potential for their habitability.

Overview

Activity Outline: Understand the formation of salt pans via the mechanism of evaporation. 

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Critically examine evaporation
• Understand states of matter
• Describe how salinity and desiccation affect the habitability of an environment.

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Mars Collection of Educational Resources: 5. Brines on Mars

In this lesson, we will be be delving into how saturated brine solutions affect the habitability of Mars.

Overview

Activity Outline: Understand super-saturated salt solutions and how they can affect the habitability of another planetary body.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Understand how crystallisation works.
• Be able to explain how we get saturated and super-saturated solutions.
• Be able to reason how saturated salt solutions affect habitability.

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Mars Collection of Educational Resources: 4. Martian Chemistry

In this lesson, we will be looking at the chemistry of Mars and how this can affect its potential habitability

Overview

Activity Outline: Understand how the chemistry of the Martian soil may affect the habitability of the Red Planet. This involves taking a closer look at how temperature and salinity can affect the chemistry of Mars.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Understand what effect temperature has on the chemistry of Mars.
• Be able to explain how salinity affects freezing points.
• Review how all of the above affects habitability.

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Europlanet Mars Collection: 2. A Brief History of Mars

For this lesson, we will be looking through the history of Mars to find out if it may have ever been a suitable home for life, as we know it here on Earth. 

Overview

Activity Outline: Investigate how Mars has changed over its history and how that might affect the habitability of the Red Planet.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Understand how Mars has changed over time.
• Hypothesise how this has affected its habitability.
• Draw a conclusion as to which era of Mars’ history was most likely to be able to support life.

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Europlanet Educational Resources – The Mars Collection

Europlanet 2024 RI has produced a set of school resources exploring the possibilities of life on the Red Planet. The resources have been produced to be easily translatable in order to facilitate ease of dissemination across Europe and beyond.  The resources link areas of the curriculum with research into past and present conditions on Mars and how we can study these conditions via analogue sites here on Earth.  The project covers a range of topics, from geoscience and volcanoes, to pH and even mineral deposition viewed through an astrobiological lens.

1. Extremophiles

The first set of resources in the Mars Collection gives an introduction to life found in extreme environments, exploring the kind of stresses we may find on Mars and how life can adapt to survive these. 

Overview

Learning Outcomes

After completing this activity, pupils will:

• Understand that cells can change to adapt to extreme environments.
• Be able to explain the function of a cell membrane.
• Assess how stresses on Mars might affect its habitability.

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Italian versions of the resources with video lessons produced by EDU INAF are now available at: Terra chiama Marte.