Complete the layout for your Colony. You need to provide an overview either on paper or digitally of what the colony will look like. Ensure your integrate the infrastructure concepts you researched on Thursday. You will present you colony plan in class on Monday.
PHS Natural Resources
Friday, June 6, 2025
Colony Day 5 -Bringing it all together
Complete the layout for your Colony. You need to provide an overview either on paper or digitally of what the colony will look like. Ensure your integrate the infrastructure concepts you researched on Thursday. You will present you colony plan in class on Monday.
Colony Day 4 -Layout
What is Chemical Engineering?
How can Chemical Engineering help you in dealing with your colony design?
Finish Answering the problems from yesterday
´Divide your
teams into the following specialty areas
´Transportation
´Internal
´On-world
´Off-World
´Communications
´Power
Generation and Distribution
´Waste
Management and Recycling
´Waste
Collection and Treatment
´Water
Production and Distribution
´Food
´Production
´Distribution
´Medical
´Facilities and
Services
´Safety/Risk
Management
´Security
(internal)
´Fire and
emergency services
´Economic Production
´Entertainment
Colony Day 3 - Infrastructure
´Divide your
teams into the following specialty areas
´Transportation
´Internal
´On-world
´Off-World
´Communications
´Power
Generation and Distribution
´Waste
Management and Recycling
´Waste
Collection and Treatment
´Water
Production and Distribution
´Food
´Production
´Distribution
´Medical
´Facilities and
Services
´Safety/Risk
Management
´Security
(internal)
´Fire and
emergency services
´Economic Production
´Entertainment
Colony Day 2 - Life Support
In your groups answer the following Questions
´Identify how
oxygen will be cycled and generated for your colony
´Identify how
water will be cycled and generated for your colony
´Identify how
food will be cycled and generated for your colony
Colony Part 1 -Unifying Efforts
Get together with the people who studied the same world as you. You will be designing a proposed colony to allow humans to inhabit that world. Your group will need to decide the following to get started
´Identify the
purpose of your colony
´Why is it
being constructed?
´How long is it
expected to last?
´Fixed or
expanding size?
´Identify the
group, nation, organization that will establish your colony.
´Where is the
funding coming from?
´What is the
philosophy/ unifying purpose of the colonists?
´Identify your
tentative location for the colony.
´Orbital,
Surface, or Subterranean
´Justification
Monday, June 2, 2025
Terra forming -Finding another home for humanity
What does it take for humanity to endure?
Consider the following areas:
- Land
- Air
- Water
- Ecology
- Economic Resources
What are the challenges and opportunities we will need to face?
You will do individual research to create a planetary profile to assist in the upcoming colonization project.
The choice of worlds are:
- Mars
- Moon (Moon of Earth)
- Europa (Moon of Jupiter)
- Titan (Moon of Saturn)
- Venus
Here is some of the information you need to determine about your world:
- Land
- Distance (Travel Time) from Earth
- Suitability of soil for farming
- Gravity (compared to earth
- Soil Hazards
- Seismicity
- Air
- Atmospheric Composition
- Temperature variation
- Air Pressure
- Available Oxygen
- Atmospheric Hazards
- Water
- Availability of water
- How hard to access water?
- Solid, liquid gas?
- Water hazards
- Ecology
- Radiation Levels
- What would it take to sustain Life?
- Economic Resources
- Solar Energy
- Other Energy Sources
- Mineral Wealth
- Other Economic Reasons
Some useful videos
When you are done go to this page and answer the 10 questions on the list.
Exit question
Based on your research, what is the greatest challenge to colonizing your selected world?
Why Mars?
What is the speakers basic message?
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support his conclusion
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support her conclusion
What do you think about colonization of mars?
Friday, May 30, 2025
Rare Earth, Great Filters and the Fermi Paradox
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- What is the Fermi Paradox?
- What is meant by 'habitable zone?
- What is Kardeshev's scale based on?
- What is meant by the concept of a "Great Filter"
- Give three examples of Great Filters.
- Do you think the filter is front of us or behind us? Explain.
Monday, May 12, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Geography and Climate
At your tables, create a poster to describe one of the following geographic effects on weather (each is a link to an article you can used to get started):
Your poster should include a diagram and answer the following questions:
Where is your effect found?
How does the geography create this effect?
How does the weather change due to this effect?
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Two ages of civilization followed by ores in Washington
A pair of videos to get us started on Ores
- Go to this link and complete the Mineral Distribution in Washington exercise. The image shows the location of ore deposits in Washington, and the questions require you to consider how the melting points and/or densities may affect the distribution here in Washington.
Monday, January 3, 2022
Energy
Questions
- What is energy?
- What does the phrase “children of the sun” mean?
- How does electricity differ from energy?
- How has energy use transformed civilization?
Other views of the changes
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