{"product_id":"plan-a-mission-to-mars-space-exploration-pbl-grades-3-5","title":"Plan a Mission to Mars Space Exploration PBL Grades 3-5","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlan a Mission to Mars\u003c\/strong\u003e is a space exploration project based learning mission for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. Mission Control has approved a new journey to Mars, but the crew, supplies, habitat, and exploration plan have not been chosen. That's where your students come in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking in mission teams, students read about Mars and the real robots that have explored it, choose one of three missions, hire four astronauts, manage a $60,000 budget, design a safe habitat, plan a rover exploration, solve a Mars Mission Challenge Card, graph their mission data, and report back. Every choice they make early on shapes the rest of the mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a full PBL simulation, not a packet of worksheets. 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