In Good Hands: Engineering Space Gloves

Participants work as materials engineers and consider the trade-offs of each material in space gloves that will help astronauts complete one of three missions to an asteroid, the Moon or Mars. Nine activities help elementary students learn about engineering, technologies and space hazards.

Use this unit for afterschool or out-of-school-time programs or other informal education settings. This unit includes a downloadable educator’s/facilitator’s guide, scoring rubric, a parent letter, an audio message, iOS app, and a journal. Some resources are available in Spanish.

In Good Hands

This activity is brought to you by a partnership with NASA and the Museum of Science, Boston’s “Engineering Is Everywhere” curricula through NASA’s Science Activation program. “Engineering is Elementary” is a part of The National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL) at the Museum of Science, Boston.

More “Engineering Is Everywhere” units:

Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers (Grades 3-5)

The Sky’s the Limit: Engineering Flight Technology (Grades 3-5)

Testing the Waters: Engineering a Water Reuse Process (Grades 6-8)

Worlds Apart: Engineering Remote Sensing Devices (Grades 6-8)