Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Human Space Exploration, Life Science, Mathematics, Present and Future, Health and Nutrition
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
In this standards-aligned exercise, students use percentages to learn how space food is prepared. With this exercise, students will:
- Use a formula to calculate the percent rehydration of a food sample with a defined dehydrated mass.
- Determine the amount of water necessary for a defined dehydrated mass to achieve a certain percentage of rehydration.
Common Core: 6.RP.A.3.C
Launch Into Math – Exercise 6: Percentages
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