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Day 1.
Introductory Engagement Activity

Suggestions for class management and answers to game questions in slide comment fields.

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Teacher notes for discussion of main points in video: http://www.bioengineering.com/earthday/videobreakdown.php

Additional activity to add to this class or as homework assignment: Careers in Sustainability : Bioengineering Group founder and CEO Wendi Goldsmith. ARTICLE FROM //ZILLION MAGAZINE//(NL) http://www.zillion.nl/

__**EXTENSION**__ (for honors or advanced independent research project) > (http://www.bioengineering.com/ourpeople.php includes brief description of what each does. Projects http://www.bioengineering.com/projects/index.php ) ecologists, earth scientists, engineers, construction managers, energy experts, and landscape design professionals
 * What professions needed for the types of projects these companies are involved in?

Days 2 & 3:
Activity - Working towards a definition of Sustainability

This activity lets students identify key elements of sustainability and pose questions that will be answered as part of more in-depth activities as part of the first 6 weeks of the course. In other words, students should be left with the impression that they are designing the syllabus.



Homework Day 2 due Day 3:
This homework assignments responds to one of the themes that should have been identified in the Day 2 activity: Everything is interconnected. If this was not a theme identified in the activity then, the discussion about the homework assignment on Day 3 should include an opportunity to look at the list again and add this to the list of key themes.

Read Article and answer questions in writing



Carl Sagan Ecosphere Student Questions Handout

Day 4:
Everything is interconnected ( one of the themes students identified in Day 2 activity )
 * Teaching notes for discussion of Carl Sagan EcoSphere review.

Biosphere Video Introduction - //What if the EcoSphere were modified as a terrestrial rather than a water-based world and then enlarged making it big enough for a few people to live in? Would it still work? What would you need to have in the enlarged EcoSphere to make it work for people (shrimp can eat algae but people probably wouldn't last very long on a diet of algae)? Discussion of this. There have been several attempts to do this. The first was the Biosphere 2 project built in the Arizona desert. Jane Poynter was one of 8 humans who lived there for two years.//



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 * Biosphere Video (20 minutes) & Questions to answer while watching - students read through questions before watching video)

Day 5 (for 3 - 4 days):
Everything is interconnect (continued)
 * What about another planet? Could we build a Ecosphere on a planet that has no life on it now? What would it take to make it sustainably habitable? This video provides the basic facts of the planets closest to Earth that might be suitable and highlights the unique features of the Earth's systems that would need to be replicated including life, a life-supporting atmosphere, liquid water, source of energy (Sun) and the right kind of land/water/atmosphere arrangement to move the heat absorbed from the energy sour around the planet, and geological activity (tectonic activity).

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MAIN ACTIVITY (2 - 3 DAYS?) National Geographic: **//Making Mars the New Earth//** Interactive: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/07/mars Video (~46 minutes) []

Data Forms for the above Activity

Habitability Table for Terraforming Activity Answer Sheet for Image Comparisons

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 * Need rubric for student Colonist Recruitment project these reports

Summing up : Everything is connected theme