Marsville: The Cosmic Village

Workshop Objective: To prepare educators to be a facilitator for Marsville: The Cosmic Village curriculum through hands-on participation in the curriculum activities.

Workshop Description: Marsville is a classroom-based project that allows students to create a prototype habitat for Mars. Students create their own living environments using a multitude of interdisciplinary skills. The program culminates with a link-up day when all the classes rendezvous at one site to construct their life size cosmic village and share the experience of creating a settlement on Mars. Marsville is a curriculum product of Challenger Center for Space Science Education.

Audience - educators of youth in grades 5-8

Length of Workshop - six hours