Explore Mars: Games & Activities
Teach students all about Mars through 5 interactive games and activities! These games have students moving, creating, and learning basic facts about Mars including information on temperature, gravity, geography, atmosphere, and location.
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Teaching Duration: 3 hours
Teach students all about Mars through 5 interactive games and activities! These games have students moving, creating, and learning basic facts about Mars including information on temperature, gravity, geography, atmosphere, and location.
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Teaching Duration: 3 hours
Teach students all about Mars through 5 interactive games and activities! These games have students moving, creating, and learning basic facts about Mars including information on temperature, gravity, geography, atmosphere, and location.
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Teaching Duration: 3 hours
LESSON OVERVIEW
Teach students all about Mars through 5 interactive games and activities! These games have students moving, creating, and learning basic facts about Mars including information on temperature, gravity, geography, atmosphere, and location. Activities require minimal supplies such as paper and a projector.
Activity 1: Mars – Earth 4 Corners Game
Learn through moving! Students compare facts about Earth and Mars by voting through moving around the room when a fact is presented.
Activity 2: Mars – Earth Matching Game
Students will discover information about Mars by comparing facts and sorting cards for either Earth or Mars.
Activity 3: Mars Skit Activity
Teams will learn information about Mars and share with the class in a creative performance or visual medium such as a skit, cheer, dance, or movie.
Activity 4: Mars Flashcards
Students can practice their knowledge or quiz each other using the Mars trivia flashcards.
Activity 5: Mars Trivia Game
Test student knowledge with this Mars trivia game in PowerPoint form! Includes photos and graphics to help reinforce concepts. (This activity is included separately as a PowerPoint file).
Mars Colony STEM Project
This product is a great companion to the Mars Colony Project. Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long term habitat on Mars. This creative and in-depth project is a great activity for your classroom or afterschool program!
