Science
Testing the Waters: Water in the Solar System
In these Activities, youth answer the guiding question, Where, and how accessible, usable, and habitable, is water in the solar system?
- Youth will learn where water is found on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
- Youth will learn about different reservoirs of water on planetary bodies and the factors that affect whether water is usable by humans or habitable for other life.
- Youth will explore evidence for water in different forms on different planetary bodies.
- Youth will consider accessibility, usability, and habitability in arguing which planetary body they want to explore.
Engineering
Testing the Waters: Engineering a Water Reuse Process
In these Adventures, youth answer the guiding question, How can we design a water filtration system to support people in an extreme environment?
- Youth will learn that technology is anything designed by humans to help solve a problem and that engineers are people who design and improve technologies.
- Youth will learn that a space glove must protect astronauts from extreme temperatures, impact hazards, and dust contamination in space.
- Youth will discover that some materials are better than others at protecting against hazards in space, and they can choose materials that work together to meet multiple criteria.
- Youth will apply their learning by using the Engineering Design Process to ask questions, imagine possible solutions, plan and create model space gloves, and test and improve those gloves.
Home
Water in Extreme Environments Game
In this Activity, youth explore which environments around the solar system might support life, and they work with family members to design water filters.
- Youth will learn that bodies around the solar system have different properties, including gravity, density, size, water, and distance from the Sun.
- Families will learn that they can filter water in order to reuse it at home.
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