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Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon (Student Handbook)
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Lunar Nautics: Designing a Mission to Live and Work on the Moon (Student Handbook)

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Grade Level: 5-8

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Science Education Standards:
  • Science as Inquiry
  • Physical Science
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Science and Technology
  • Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
  • History and Nature of Science

Short Description: The Student Employment Handbook supplements the Lunar Nautics Educator Guide. The handbook contains the student sheets that accompany the lessons and activities in the educator guide.

The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space Systems, Inc., a fictional aerospace company specializing in mission management, lunar habitat and exploration design, and scientific research.

The guide features lessons that address the basics of Newton's Laws of Motion, rocket design, microgravity, and the Moon. Students will design, test and analyze a model lunar lander, a robot and a soda bottle rocket. Other activities include building edible models of spacecraft and a solar oven to cook hot dogs. Students can also build a microgravity sled as part of an underwater activity.

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