Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Engineering Design, Life Science, Spanish, Living and Working in Space
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
This lesson will help your students answer the questions:
Which color, black or white, reflects energy better? Which color absorbs energy better?
In this lesson, students will
– Gather data by measuring temperature in two different colored envelopes (black and white).
– Use data to infer which color reflects energy better and which color absorbs energy better.
Cool Suits Activity
For educators [525KB PDF file] en español
For students [281KB PDF file] en español
The Cool Suits Activity is the lesson that accompanies How Will Your Imagination Help You Become an Explorer?, one of the topics in the 21st Century Explorer series.
Also in this series:
Those Who Have Come Before Me Activity
Food For Spaceflight Activity
Get a Leg Up Activity
Speed It Up Activity
Designing a Crew Exploration Vehicle Activity
What’s Hidden Inside Activity
Moon Mining Activity
Let’s Investigate Mars Activity
Cleaning Water Activity
Making Regolith Activity
Ray Shielding Activity