Mars K-12 Education Program Department of Geology, Box 871404 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TEMPE, ARIZONA 85287-1404 USA (602) 965-1790; FAX (602) 965-17875 February 1994
Dear Educator,
The "NASA-Mars Observer Thermal Emission Spectrometer 1993-1994 Education Supplement and Guide" was originally handed out to attendees of our Second K-12 Mars Educators' Workshop held on August 21, 1993. This workshop highlighted educational activities developed for teachers in Arizona to use in their classrooms to bring the Mars Observer mission down to Earth. The activities are included here [in the hardcopy edition] on the yellow-colored pages.
Our workshop ended just 1 hour before communications with Mars Observer were lost forever. The material in this guide includes information about Mars Observer and its instruments. The guide also contains useful background on Mars, Mars exploration, educator resources, and educational acitivies. This guide still has considerable value for those of you planning to integrate planetary sciences into your curriculum for 1993-1994. We plan to have a new guide, geared more toward planetary science in general, for the 1994-1995 school year. This new guide will be available at our August 1994 education workshop, and will also be found by computer on the Internet by accessing the World Wide Web.Educators may photocopy the "1993-1994 Education Supplement and Guide" to share with colleagues. The copy you hold in your hand [that is, if you are reading the hardcopy-- which you are not] represents the second printing of this guide.
IMPORTANT to WWW browsers:
The Mars K-12 Education Program at Arizona State University will not print them again after January 1994. An on-line version containing some (but not all) of the material in this guide will be available via the Internet World Wide Web in February 1994.
-- Ken Edgett, Director of ASU Mars K-12 Education Progam