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Challenge: Design a Martian

Highland Elementary School, Bend, Oregon,
Ms. Cofer's Science – Nemo

  • Nemo is a penguin that lives on Mars, and has a heated beak, and has sticky feet.
  • Nemo lives underground in the ice on Mars.
  • It eats Dust and Ice.
  • It can sense thin ice a long way away.
  • It has five inch thick feathers for warmth.
  • It has sharp talons.
  • It flies.
  • It sheds feathers to create a bed.
  • Nemo breathes carbon dioxide.
  • It is three feet tall and weighs forty lbs.
  • Special features:

    • Spinning hot beak that helps it get water out of the ice.
    • Exoskeleton
    • Camel eyelids

 

student drawing of martian

 

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