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Can you imagine getting to learn about Mars? NASA has launched several orbiters and robotic rovers in several missions to Mars. What an opportunity our students have today! The sixth grade students are participating in an online science course with the JASON Foundation of Education. JASON expeditions have been taking students and teachers on expeditions to Hawaii and volcanoes, the frozen regions, the ocean, and wetlands.

JASON is a supplementary science curriculum used by schools developed by scientists and educators. The project integrates technology with standard-based hands-on and inquiry learning. Participants get to work with leading national researchers. By using the computers in the modular lab, students get to participate in on-line activities with the JASON team of experts. Students get to participate in digital labs, have access to resources, expedition galleries, message boards that contain the assignment of the day, and chats with experts.

Students get to view digital photographs sent back to earth by rovers. They get an upclose view of the Martian landscape due to unmanned robotic missions that have been sent to Mars. Soon we may be able to answer the question that scientist everywhere have been asking since 1964. “ Is there life on mars?”

Want to take a look for yourself? Visit the jasonwebsite.

Spirit Landrover          and               Phoenix Landrover
                            

images from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory <http:marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/