Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Spanish, Solar System and Planets, Asteroids Comets Meteorites
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Learners will imagine the challenges and opportunities of asteroid mining. Learners will draw asteroid mining machines, and consider how these devices would extract, process and return mined materials to Earth. Then, learners assume roles as a scientist, explorer, lawyer or engineer and imagine what concerns or priorities their profession might have about the new technology.
The materials for this activity are also available in Spanish.
This activity is brought to you by a partnership with NASA and the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network through NASA’s Science Activation program.