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Audience: Educators & Students
Grades: 3-5


This lesson will help your students answer the question:
Can I design and build a Crew Exploration Vehicle that will be a model for future space exploration?

In this lesson, students will
-- Design a model CEV for future space exploration.
-- Develop a conclusion based upon the results of this design.
-- Compare individual results to class results by looking for patterns.

Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle Activity
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The Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle Activity is the lesson that accompanies What Will Replace the Space Shuttle?, one of the topics in the 21st Century Explorer series. Each exploration topic in NASA's Kids Science News Network™ 21st Century Explorer series has a 30-second newsbreak videoclip, online Web explanation (background information), hands-on activity guide based on national education standards, online glossary and quiz.

All components of What Will Replace the Space Shuttle? are available on the 21st Century Explorer topic page  →.

Also in this series:
Those Who Have Come Before Me Activity
Food For Spaceflight Activity
Get a Leg Up Activity
Speed It Up Activity
What's Hidden Inside Activity
Moon Mining Activity
Let's Investigate Mars Activity
Cleaning Water Activity
Making Regolith Activity
Ray Shielding Activity
Cool Suits Activity


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