Explore all the different people and careers at NASA

This lesson will help your students answer the question:

What are the most essential items for the survival of settlers and explorers in new worlds?

In this lesson, students will

- Analyze and rank items based upon their importance for survival in a particular environment.

- Work as a team to come to a consensus about the importance of certain survival items.

- Compare team rankings to rankings developed by history and astronomy experts.

- Identify and compare human needs in two different exploration environments.

- Compare the differences in survival on Earth and the moon.

Essential Question

What similarities do they see? What differences? Why are these aspects important?

Objective

KnowAncestral Puebloan Culture in reference to: food, art, symbolism, traditions, religious ideologies, and lifestyle

Understand: culture through lifestyle and petroglyph understanding

Be Able to Do: discuss and write about different facets of culture including practices, survival, food, and symbols. Students will write about their cultural upbringing in relation to Ancestral Puebloan culture.

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Use App Lab to create your NASA app challenge project!

The NASA App Development Challenge is a coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle and high school students for their deep space exploration missions. Students can take a part directly in the Artemis Generation endeavors to land American astronauts, including the first woman and first person of color on the Moon. Learn more about the challenge, and register by September 28!

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