Date & time:						Tuesday 20 November (Course ID: CDI020121453) 1.15 p.m. - 3.15 p.m.(Cancelled) 4.15 p.m. - 6.15 p.m. Wednesday 21 November (Course ID: CDI020121453) 1.15 p.m. - 3.15 p.m. 4.15 p.m. - 6.15 p.m.
	Venue:						Laboratory, Hong Kong Science Museum
	Reservation:						For e-services teachers, please register online through the Training Calendar on the Education Bureau website tcs.edb.gov.hk. For non e-services teachers, please download registration form here.
	Enquiries:						3698 3440

Mission to Mars

In August, NASA’s Mars rover, “Curiosity”, successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Curiosity will search for the building blocks of extraterrestrial life and investigate how Mars turned from a wet and warm planet into a dry and cold one. The two-year mission will likely draw interest for years and inspire young people to go into science. Science Alive hopes to heighten the interest with this workshop. Students will be making their own rockets and launching them into Mars’ orbit. But before they do that, they will explore some questions such as: Where is Mars? What is an orbit? And how do scientists get rockets to go that far?

Curriculum Links:
Science curriculum S1 – 3: Unit 9 – Space Travel

Please download Teachers' supplementary materials here .

Conducted in English (with Cantonese interpretation provided by Theatre Noir)

Suitable for junior secondary students (S1-3) and teachers

Facilitators: Nathaniel Marten & Shane Craig (London Science Museum, UK)