Growing Minds Through Building Mars 火星项目培养学生发展式的思维

At Yew Chung International School of Beijing, students in the Year 8 Learning Community recently joined together to undertake the school’s inaugural Mars Project, simulating the incredible efforts of SpaceX and Mars One as they aim to establish human colonies on Mars. Spread across many weeks, students were introduced to the fundamentals of setting up a new colony, including the formation of government and institutions, while relying on practical uses of mathematics, science, and the humanities to plan their new society.

最近，北京耀中国际学校八年级学习社区的学生启动了火星项目，模拟着创建X空间及火星一号两个项目所需要花费的努力，并计划在火星建立人类的殖民地。接下来的几周，老师们给大家介绍建立新殖民地的基本原则，包括如何建立政府及其他机构，并综合运用数学、科学和人文知识来计划建立他们的新城市。

Originally conceived of by a group of Secondary teachers in one of their regularly scheduled collaboration meetings, the aim of the project was to create something that could allow the Year 8 Learning Community to work together, that would be open to cross-curricular integration, and that could incorporate Project-Based Learning principles. The Mars Project fit those aims perfectly, while also being fun for students and drawing realistic parallels to the projects actually taking place in the world today.

之前，在一个常规的教师协作讨论会上，几个中学老师就构思了这个火星项目。这个项目的目的是想让八年级学习社区的学生一同工作，一起发散思维、整合跨学科知识及项目式学习的原则。火星项目正好完美地满足了这个目的，并且很有趣，同时也和现实世界中发生的事情有着紧密联系。

Rebecca Flavin, Secondary English Teacher at YCIS Beijing, shares more information about the Mars Project, including the ways in which the unique Learning Community model helped to facilitate its success.

Rebecca Flavin, 北京耀中国际学校中学部英语老师，和我们分享了更多有关火星项目的信息，其中包括独特的学习社区模式是如何使这个项目取得成功的。

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