Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Human Space Exploration, Life Science, Mathematics, Health and Nutrition, Life Support, Living and Working in Space, Measurement and Data Analysis, Numbers and Operations, Probability and Statistics, Problem Solving, Solar System and Planets, Earth, Mars
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Students research and investigate water consumption rates of astronauts based on a given scenario to determine if their water supply is enough to sustain them on the remainder of their journey.
Students will:
- Construct scale models of the Earth–Moon and Earth–Mars systems with balloons to depict planetary sizes and distances from each other.
- Calculate the water needs of astronauts on a deep space mission.
- Calculate and graph water consumption rates, and make determinations based on trends within a graph.
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ESS1-3
Common Core Math Standard: 8.F.B.4 ,7.EE.B.4, 6.RP.A.1, 6.NS.B.3
This lesson plan is part of the Hazards to Deep Space Astronauts educator guide.