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Home » Activities » Mars Diary » Chapter Five: Sustainable Living » Biodome Garden

Biodome Garden

Mars Diary

Activity 5.2

Create a biodome to house food and plant crops that can sustain your Mars population. The ability to create renewable food sources beyond Earth is essential if humans are going to successfully colonise other planets. Issues like the lack of a readily available water supply and microgravity will need to be considered, so that plants can be grown in extraterrestrial environments.

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Subjects

  • English / Literacy
  • Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC)
  • Primary Science / Working Scientifically
  • Design and Technology (DT)

Learning Methods

  • Imagine and Invent
  • Draw
Biodome Garden

Support Materials

Multimedia Downloads

PowerPoint Presentation: Biodome Garden  (8.32 MB pptx) ↓ Image Bundle: Biodome Garden  (988.69 KB zip) ↓

Links

  • Principia Space Diary: Space Dinner
  • EatWell Guide
  • Information about the top 10 space plants
  • Read the results of the Rocket Science project
  • ESA clip about space gardening
  • NASA clip about space gardening

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