This activity asks students to research Earth and Mars and draw them side-by-side, focusing on ‘signs of life’.
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Mars Diary
Activity 4.4
Designing an experiment to test a hypothesis is a fundamental part of scientific enquiry. This chapter builds up to this concluding challenge by laying the foundations for students to investigate the presence of methane on Mars. To finish this chapter, they must consider how they find out where – or whom – it was coming from!
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Chapter Four: Science on Mars
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