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Postcards From Mars

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Fifth graders research and explore what life would be like for human colonists on Mars. They explore various websites, read and discuss newspaper articles, develop a chart of the hardships and conditions that would be faced by colonists on Mars, and write a letter from the point of view of a human colonist living on Mars.

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5th
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Science
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