Improve

The Educator Guide has a script, materials list, and prep directions. Be sure to have it open and ready to help guide you through every activity.

• Post the Engineering Design Process poster.
• Arrange the Space Screens according to Space Screen Assembly, Educator Guide p. 52.
• Create a Materials Table with the materials from Activity 4.
• Make copies of the Engineering Showcase invitation, Educator Guide p. 83, for youth to distribute to their family and friends.

• The improve step allows engineers to reflect upon and alter their designs.
• They can improve remote sensing technologies.

• Improve their remote sensing devices.
• Start to think about how they will communicate the data they collected to the scientists.

Data can be communicated in music or visually appealing artforms. Try it yourself: assign a note to each level of the moonscape and sing or play your findings to the group.

• Have groups check the size of their devices by placing them on a folded sheet of paper.
• Data visualizations can take many forms, including drawings, maps, and graphs.
• Having an authentic audience for the Showcase can inspire youth to think more deeply about their presentations.

Improve (in engineering): To make a device better than the first build. Examples include something being smaller, lighter, more durable, faster, able to do more things, or collect more kinds of data.