Mars Of The Mind
Design Document
Goal Statement
(This section addresses part of Course Requirement #5)

Gifted fifth and sixth grade students will hypothesize as to what Mars might look like in 2005 with improved technology. Students will accomplish this by navigating the Mars Of The Mind web site to:

  1. Review examples of well-known inventions and discoveries which hold a prominent place in history due to the way mankind's views of reality and truth were altered by them.
  2. View historical pictures of Mars from different time periods and study the then available technologies used to form those pictures.
  3. Use this information to form opinions concerning the accuracy of technology and its effect on man’s view of the universe at any given time.
  4. Use these opinions to imagine what technology will be available 5 years from now and what man’s view of Mars will be because of it.

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