Here are ideas to encourage students to pursue a specific area of interest to them for more engagement and varied learning.
How can we generate our needed air?How do we grow food to be sustainable?What types of materials & structures can be built to accommodate needs?Space suitsTransportation (shuttles, supplies vehicles)Rovers (robotic &/or human driven) DronesetcHere are LEGO's specific research project ideas ( with LPs) :
How can humans survive in space?How do we generate energy for human outposts?How can robots help humans explore?Safety, training and a well-equipped spacesuit are essential components for a spacewalk as astronauts work outside of the space station in low-Earth orbit. Watch Expedition 55/56 flight engineer Ricky Arnold in this two-part episode as he explains spacewalk safety and training in addition to the parts of the spacesuit that protects astronauts outside the space station.
Water in space behaves differently. Surface tension and capillary flow can be harnessed to move fluids in more efficient ways.
What looks like fun could actually help us improve systems for moving fluids in microgravity, in things like fuel tanks for space travel.
Find out more about fluid physics in space in our researcher’s guide: https://go.nasa.gov/2KShhuT Learn more about the research being conducted on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science
NASA's Matt Romeyn works in the Crop Food Production Research Area of the Space Station Processing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/growing-plants-in-spaceAstronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor harvests red Russian kale and dragoon lettuce from Veggie on Nov. 28, 2018, just in time for Thanksgiving. The crew got to enjoy a mid-afternoon snack with balsamic vinegar, and Auñón-Chancellor reported the lettuce was "delicious!"
Credits: ESA/Alexander GerstJohn "JC" Carver, a payload integration engineer with Kennedy's Test and Operations Support Contract, opens the door to the growth chamber of the Advanced Plant Habitat Flight Unit No. 1 for a test harvest of half of the Arabidopsis thaliana plants growing within.
Credits: NASA/Leif Heimbold