Sample Astrobiology Activities

Chapter 12 - Are There Habitable Worlds Elsewhere? - Activity 2

Extreme Life Card Game

This chapter provides students with the opportunity to assess and exhibit their understanding of habitability and its importance to our search for life on other worlds.

In this activity students explore how extreme life on Earth may serve as models for life elsewhere. They play a matching card game that helps them establish a link between extreme life on Earth to its Earth habitat and then to a possible habitat elsewhere in the solar system.