For Teachers

Mission to Mars contains a lot of information about equilibrium.  Some of the information is simple.  Some is quite complex.  Because the material is hypertext linked, there is no direct route that will cover everything in this material.   Instead, students can branch out into areas that may be more interesting to them.   At the same time, there is a general path through the material.  It is arranged into four main chapters, and a summary.  Each chapter has a table of contents listing its main topics.  Also, there are two navigation arrows at the bottom of each page.  These will go forward , or backward through the material to cover all the main topics in sequence.

There are a lot of different way you can use Mission to Mars in the classroom.   You could use it:

• As a standalone unit on chemical equilibrium, since it covers almost all the topics usually introduced in high school chemistry.
• As enrichment, since it allows individual students to go beyond the ordinary, by following hypertext links to more and more complex topics.
• To provide indiviual topics for student use in researching the study of equilibrium.

There are some computer simulations used.  They require that you download a plugin and install it on your computer.   Almost every experiment has either sample data, photographs, or video so that they can be used even if lab facilities are lacking.  If you want students to do the experiments themselves, then you can also download and print a lab procedure for them.  These are in Word 97 format and are suitable for duplication.