This time of year is perfect for an outside science project. My classes are learning about Mars and the possibility of going there in the future. We will be starting the Mars Habitat project this week. Today we picked the themes for the six habitats. Tomorrow, I will announce the lead engineer and assistant engineer for each class. Each class will build two habitats and all of them will be connected with tunnels.

I’ll show the students tomorrow how to fold the habitats using paper and tape. It’s not that hard to do, but practicing with paper helps when they are working with the plastic.