Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Life Science, Physical Science, Space Science, Technology, Living and Working in Space, Forces and Motion, Microgravity, Solar System and Planets, Earth's Moon
Type
Educator Guides
The Lunar Nautics Educator Guide has 40 activities. Students assume roles of workers at Lunar Nautics Space Systems, Inc., a fictional aerospace company specializing in mission management, lunar habitat and exploration design, and scientific research.
This guide features lessons that address the basics of Newton’s Laws of Motion, rocket design, microgravity, and the moon. Students will design, test and analyze a model lunar lander, a robot, and a soda bottle rocket. Other activities include building edible models of spacecraft and a solar oven to cook hot dogs. Students can also build a microgravity sled as part of an underwater activity.
Educators can use this guide in a variety of settings or formats, such as week-long day camps, after-school programs, a classroom unit or as supporting curriculum.
The Student Employment Handbook supplements the Lunar Nautics Educator Guide. The handbook contains the student sheets that accompany the lessons and activities in the educator guide.
Lunar Nautics Educator Guide [4MB PDF file]
Lunar Nautics Student Employment Handbook [3MB PDF file]