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You Live in a Shipping Container?

Yes, folks, some people live in old, repurposed shipping containers—those huge, metal, rectangular boxes used for receiving goods from overseas.

You can read more about repurposing shipping containers and see some cool pictures here.

They are also being used for restaurants, art galleries, and more.

Other people choose to live in micro-units (tiny, tiny apartments) as small as 250 square feet. That’s 25′ x 10′. Measure that out in your house and see how much space that takes up.

If you were to live in a recycled shipping container or in a space as small as these micro-units, how would you arrange your living space?

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS

What does it take to have a happy family?

“Families that eat together, stay together. It’s that simple,” writes Denise Mann in “15 Secrets of Happy Families” on WebMD.com. Do you agree? Is it really that simple?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in the same article suggests this: “Have one or two unifying activities that the family does together on a nightly basis.” This could be reading a story or playing a game together.

So . . . You Want to Go to Mars?

MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS

Mars, planetfacts.org The Mars One project isn’t a science-fiction story by Edgar Rice Burroughs or Ray Bradbury.

Mars One is a project that is making plans for taking scientists and colonists to Mars, scheduled for some time in 2024. You can read more about it here.

Are you in? In the United States, you could apply to Mars One for only $38 dollars. Applications are now closed. Out of the thousands who have applied so far, only 40 will be on the trip to put a human colony on Mars. But what’s the hitch?