Prediction - What is this thing about?

Students will fill in their character sheets. Write backstory.

They are applying to join a colonization mission for Mars.

Give them jobs based on what you feel they would be best at.

Astronaut training

- bat thingy obstacle course (Strenght)
- Memory and puzzles (Int.)
- Program microbits for reflex test, use them (Dexterity)
- Lung capacity test - blow up a balloon in a single breath, measure circumference of balloon. (Health)

Teacher will decide which task the student was best at, and give the student an extra attribute point.

Students write how they feel about being chosen. Are they nervous, excited? What does it feel like to be singled out, when thousands of people applied to go? What are their emotions around leaving their families and friends forever?

What do you do with your last day on Earth? Who do you spend it with? How do you say goodbye?

You are allowed to take one thing from home - what do they choose?

Writing prompt - what does a rocket launch look like, sound like, feel like?

Show video of rocket launch?

You have arrived at your home for the next several years. Describe being weightless. Is there artificial gravity? How is it generated? Design a spaceship that will carry several people with all the equipment they need in order to start a colony on a different planet.

Teacher provides the basic spaceship command unit. Students must design a section of the spaceship related to their job - biology, engineering, maintenance, mining, whatever. Each section must be circular. Students will determine circumference, diameter, radius, area and make it to scale.

Miras?

You say your final good-byes to your loved ones and leave orbit. Who do you talk to?

Write up the conversation. Include as much emotional detail as possible.

Make a goodbye video - Flipgrid, whatever medium they wish.

Last message for humanity

Write about being in space

Students have to navigate an obstacle course while dodging balls. Students that get hit represent damage to the spaceship - a hole punctured in the hull. Each hull section has 3 "hit-points". If a section loses those "hit-points" it will be critically damaged. Consequence could be a loss of hitpoints.

Your imposters are now active. They must sabotage the ship in order to make it crash. Consult with the saboteurs to figure out exactly what they will sabotage.
Play Among Us?

Salt has gotten into the water system, making the water undrinkable. Students brainstorm to come up with a way to separate the salt and water.

Provide students with an Intelligence of 4 or higher access to internet.

CO2 scrubbers have been sabotaged.

Provide students with newsELA on purifying air. Students must paraphrase the article.

Microbit programming activity?

Use snap circuits to power a fan.

The engines have overloaded, and are about to explode.

If students want to fix the engines (impossible) give them a very short time and an impossible task. Number maze?

Students not involved in number maze challenge will pack items. They can choose 5 things to take with them that will allow them to survive.

As the escape pods are jettisoned, a wormhole appears and sucks everyone down it.

Read the wormhole reading or watch wormhole video and write about the experience of navigating a wormhole.

Pringles Chip Challenge

Setting criteria - Gini Newman (look for the shoe thing).

1 - 4 scale agreed upon with the class, 4 being the best

1 - 3 stat points lost
2 - 2 stat points lost
3 - 1 stat point lost
4 - 0 stat points lost

Students will scavenge to find out what is available to build with.

Draw a blueprint, then build.

Give students with higher Intelligence and Strength extra materials. Limit the amount of hot glue.

Stat Point of:
4 - 5 extra pieces
5 - 8
6 - 11

Have students determine which materials are sustainable and which are not. Give saboteurs an opportunity to sabotage non-sustainable structures.

Everyone is plagued by a nightmare. Everyone writes their own nightmare, but they each have the following elements:

- bacteria
- brain
- lightening

Students must build a water filter and pump or water purification system.

Again, determine which materials are sustainable and have the unsustainable projects sabotaged.

Seed germination experiment

Students will be in groups. Each group will receive one type of seed. Soil type or additives will be the trials. Control trial will be a soil of teacher's choosing. Variables will be in soil type or additives to the soil.

Saboteurs will sabotage any trial they feel is unsustainable.

Students will build an energy source:

Windmill
Water turbine
Steam Engine

Once each type is tested, students will decide which one works the best, and which they will use to power their new settlement.

Windmill - no consequences
Water Turbine - 2 Mega-Fauna attack
Steam Engine - 4 Mega-Fauna attack.

Write the battle.

Resource extraction is important.

Algebraic code message embedded in the dream

More creatures this time. Up the ante. There should be more risk involved in this battle.

Another algebra message?