Martian Crop Possibilities – Student Investigation

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Independent (student resource), Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

This investigation can be modified for students at different levels. It supplements the Tomatosphere™ Project by looking at a variety of crops that are possibilities for Martian cultivation. It should be used with the chart on Crop Characteristics found with the Martian Crop Possibilities

Martian Crop Possibilities

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

Tomatosphere™ concentrates on just one crop – tomatoes. In this resource, Tomatosphere crop possibilities are presented for your consideration.

Before You Begin the Tomatosphere Project

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document, Guide

With the Tomatosphere™ Project, “planning, planning, planning” is the key to success. This resource will help you begin Tomatosphere project planning.

Exploring Space – Student Questions

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Independent (student resource), Classroom based
Resource Type: Document, Guide

This PDF contains some “guiding questions” which will help to get your students thinking about exploring space and particularly Mars.

Exploring Space – An Introduction

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

This Tomatosphere Exploring Space resource outlines the relevancy of the Tomatosphere project in the task of space exploration.

Inviting the Media

Designed for:
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

If you wish to generate publicity for your school’s Tomatosphere experiment, the attached Tomatosphere media release PDF may be modified and sent to your local media outlets.

Mars – An Introduction

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

This Mars introduction PDF provides an overview which might supply a number of answers to questions about the formation of our solar system and more.

Keeping Parents Involved

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document, Parent Handouts

You can assist parents’ and guardians’ understanding of Tomatosphere by keeping them informed about the purpose of the project and how it fits into your curriculum plans.

Mars – Weather, Agriculture and Greenhouses

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Classroom based
Resource Type: Document

Before humans can exist on the surface of Mars, there is much to be learned about the Mars weather, “soil”, and the potential use of greenhouses there.

Martian Greenhouse: A Micro-Ecosystem – Student Investigation

This Resource is part of the Tomatosphere™ Program

Designed for: Grades K-8
For use by: Students, Teachers.
Learning Styles: Independent (student resource), Distance Learning, Interactive (hands-on)
Resource Type: Document, Guide

Students will investigate the difficulties in building a stable ecosystem containing higher organisms in a make-shift martian greenhouse.