Mlle Kerr's Class: Blast Off to Awesome Town

The week before last, you researched, typed, and handed in persuasive essays suggesting locations for a cool class trip. To get an A on your paper, you had to:

• Write your essay in Microsoft Word
• Include the date
• Include a title
• Include the Web address of your class trip suggestion
  
• Include the cost
  
• Explain how your class trip suggestion could be connected to the things that we're studying in school

Now that I've counted up your well-written suggestions, I am pleased to announce that we will be going here to study space, and more specifically, Mars.

Today, we will decide on which program we'd like to have during our visit to the Science Centre. We will also talk about what we know (or what we think we know) about Mars. Finally, we will start to learn a little about the Red Planet through online research.

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Here are our program choices:

1. Exhibit Hall Visit PLUS Two Hour Program: Space Mission Simulation (about $15/student)
   
2. Exhibit Hall Visit PLUS Forty-Five Minute Program: Destination Space (about $10/student)
3. Exhibit Hall Visit PLUS Forty-Five Minute Program: Solar System Revealed (about $10/student)

• We can add the fifty-minute Omnimax film (Roving Mars) to our trip for about $6/student.

Follow the links to learn about the programs. We will discuss the positives and negatives about each program after you've had a chance to read about them.

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Neat Mars Research Links
NASA - Mars Funzone
NASA - Mars Exploration
Cornell University - Mars For Kids
Mars Quest - Tour
Google Mars - Map
Nine Planets - Mars