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LIVE INTERACTIVE LEARNING @ YOUR DESKTOP

September 15, 2011

NES: Properties Of Living Things:Searching For Life On Mars

Presented by: Marti Phipps

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Properties Of Living Things:

Searching For Life On Mars

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Introduction

• Use personal definition of life to determine if life exists in three soil samples. 

• Make observations and illustrate findings

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National Standards• Science as Inquiry• Chemical Reactions• Structure and Function in Living Systems

• Cells and Biological Evolution• Earth’s history

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ObjectivesStudents will:• Form an operational definition of life.

• Conduct simulated experiment with soil samples similar to the experiments on the Mars Viking Lander.

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ObjectivesStudents will:• State relationships between the soil samples using their operational definition of life.

•Make an inference about the possibility of life on Mars based on data obtained.

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NASA Connectionhttp://nasaed.okstate.edu/nes/e‐

PD/Live/SearchingForLifeOnMars/Looking_For_Life.mov

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Phoenix Mars Lander

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Earth

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Mars (Apollo 1)

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Viking on Mars

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Living?

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Conditions• Water• Energy

–Chemical–Geothermal

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Conditions• Water• Energy

–Chemical–Geothermal

• Bio‐signatures–Carbon

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Let’s pause for questions from the audience

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Is it alive?

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Discussion Questions

• What are some characteristics of living things?

• What are some characteristics of nonliving things?

• How are living things different from nonliving things?

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:  • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:  • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:  Adapt to its environment?• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:  • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:  Adapt to its environment?• Criteria:  Reproduce?• Criteria:• Criteria:  • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:  Adapt to its environment?• Criteria:  Reproduce?• Criteria:  Grow?• Criteria:  • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:  Adapt to its environment?• Criteria:  Reproduce?• Criteria:  Grow?• Criteria:  Obtain and use energy?     • Criteria:

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:  React to its environment?• Criteria:  Adapt to its environment?• Criteria:  Reproduce?• Criteria:  Grow?• Criteria:  Obtain and use energy?     • Criteria:  Made up of cells?

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Fundamental CriteriaFor Life Chart

• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria:• Criteria: • Criteria: 

React to its environment?Adapt to its environment?Reproduce?Grow?Obtain and use energy? Made up of cells?

React to its environment?Adapt to its environment?Reproduce?Grow?Obtain and use energy? Made up of cells?

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Let’s pause for questions from the audience

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It’s Alive• Students will take three different soil samples and look for signs of life based on their criteria.

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Data Charts  

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ProceduresJar 1:

• Fill with 50mL of soil• Add 5 mL sugar

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Procedures• Jar 2:• Fill with 50mL of soil• Add 5 mL instant active dry yeast and 5mL sugar

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Procedures• Jar 3:• Fill with 50mL of soil• Add 5 mL sugar• Add the powdered Alka‐Seltzer 

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Extensions• Getting There (Navigation and Trajectory)

• Tricky Terrain (Investigating Planetary Soils

• Lava Layering (Making and mapping a volcano)

• Mapping Mars (Geologic Sequence of Craters and River Channels)

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Get your credit

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Thank youCome back to the NES Virtual Campus, share your experience on NEON, and join us live during one of our webinars.

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National Science Teachers AssociationDr. Francis Q. Eberle, Executive Director

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