With Internet and telephone service unavailable for most of the morning throughout our school district, and with the temperature in the classroom soaring, we decided to move up our viewing of The Martian to this week.
On our first day of viewing, we watched the first 50 minutes of the movie. Resources for further learning about new concepts presented in the movie during the first segment are provided below:
- Interactive map (Google Mars)
- Comparing Earth and Mars
- What is a sol? One day on Mars (about 24 hours and 37 minutes)
- Missions to Mars (including the Pathfinder mission)
- Intro to hexadecimal
- Convert between hexadecimal and text
- Grow potatoes from potatoes:
The Art of Science 