Concord, California

Philosophy - Goal

Syllabus

Design Teams

Animal Locomotion

Animal Experiments

Berkeley Visit

Mission to Mars

Report on Mars

Explorer Designs

Presentations

Thank You's

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Oak Grove Middle School Science Class

Mars Science Team

Responsible for developing experiments for the rover and a method of recording data. Reasoning skills in determining what to do and how to accomplish it were critical. Frances Allison Jeff Justin Kurt
Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibility: develop experiments for the rover and a method of recording data. Specialty: asking researchable questions. Limitations: materials and scientific expertise.	(NASA)
(NASA)	Actual Pathfinder Science Experiments
Procedure: Learn the responsibilities of the other teams. We asked the class what we should measure. We determined the kind of data you need and how to measure it. We determined the instruments we needed and how to get information from them. You can choose to get the data directly from the instruments or really the Lander Team acting as our instruments. We consulted with the Engineering team to make sure the experiments fit on the rover. We mounted the experiments onto the rover. We worked with the Navigation Team and Concord Mission Control during the mission to ensure deployment of our experiments. We worked with the Lander Team to retrieve our data. We collected and analyzed the data by putting it in a table. Hints: We kept it simple. We used the Lander Team as our "technology"--they read instruments, relayed data, and executed instructions. This made it a lot easier. The above description is a slightly modified version of the Virtual Sojourner Student Activity #1: Driving Blind by Richard Edgerton. On the Live from Earth and Mars Site from K-12 educators, NASA's Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Program and the University of Washington.	The Oak Grove Rover could measure wind speed, temperature and pressure by using its AA - (Atmospheric Analyzer). The gold foil protected the experiments against changes in temperature. We added a drill to the Oak Grove Rover to collect samples. We used the Drill APXS - (Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrophotometer) to determine what rocks were made of. The OGI - (Oak Grove Imager) gave us images of the samples we collected, so we could analyze rocks and look for life.

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