Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Life Science, Spanish, Technology, Living and Working in Space
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
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
For educators [666KB PDF file] en español
For students [136KB PDF file] en español
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.
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