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Challenge: Design a Martian

Mr. Tow's 5th Grade After School Class

 

The Life Cycle of the "Spikes"

1) Bacteria - A kind of bacteria that lives on the surface of Mars. The bacteria eats crumbs or the rocks on Mars.

2) Lizard - Some sort of camouflaged lizard mixed with a dino. The lizard eats the rocks on Mars to survive. The lizard has gills to help it swim in the water below the surface. The triangles on the outer shell help provide it to resist extreme heat, and the half circles help it resist extreme cold.

3) Larger Lizard - The same small lizard, but it grew a lot bigger and the body evolves. The lizard now stands up. The spikes get shorter on the back. The spikes on the head just goes straight from middle of the nose to the spine of the back. The lizard digs craters on Mars and looks for a kind of rock in a crater where he lives.

4) Bacteria - When the lizard dies, it produces more bacteria out of the flesh and blood, and the life cycle of the Spike continues...

student drawing of the life cycle of the spikes

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