SCIENCE Team © 2006 Denis Thibault Building the Base of Your Martian Landscape

December 29, 2008 Mission to Mars2 Building a Martian Landscape :: the base Objectives –Using the landscape blueprint, reproduce your design onto a base of Styrofoam boards. Materials List –Styrofoam insulation boards –Styrofoam adhesive –Landscape blueprint –Red sharpie pen –Ruler –Utility knife –Wikipedia – scale cecraft cecraft –Martian Dollars, as per budget Procedure –The landscape will be built into 4 modules. –Each module is to be assigned to a team member –The overall landscape is 8’ X 8’ –Label each module using letters and identify and mark the adjacent sides of the modules –Divide your blueprint into four equal parts –Draw a grid on each module taking into account the scale that you used for your blueprint –Reproduce the blueprint onto the modules by converting the scaled dimensions to real size. –This should create a contour map to real scale. –Verify your module’s layout and ensure that the adjacent landscape features line up from one module to another.

December 29, 2008 Mission to Mars Landscape Base Panels Module 1Module 2 Interlocking panels Side View Top View

December 29, 2008 Mission to Mars Reproducing the Landscape Plan Plan Foamboard Base Redraw the square grid to scale. Ie. ¼” on plan = 2” on base Enlarge the size of the feature using the same scale used for the grid. Use co-ordinates to locate the features.

December 29, 2008 Mission to Mars Purchase-Lease Ledger Date Purchased Supplier Name DescriptionTotal Paid Styrofoam boards Styrofoam adhesive Drafting instruments Calculators Utility knife Science consultant fees Starting Balance : ___$______________ Ending Balance : _$________________