Ready for Impact

The Educator Guide has a script, materials list, and prep directions. It will take about 25 minutes to prepare for this activity.

• Post the EDP Poster.
• Get the Message from the Duo ready.
• Post Testing Results chart and add an Impact column (Educator Guide p. 46).
• Set up the Materials Table.
• Fill two containers with 100 washers each and tape lids on.
• Prepare demo glove with 5 spaghetti pieces.
• Set up testing stations (skewer taped to aluminum tray, spaghetti, testing weights, ruler).

A Message from the Duo

• A space glove must protect against impact hazards.
• Some materials are better than others at protecting against heavy moving objects.

Test and compare how well different materials protect against impact hazards, specifically damage from heavy moving objects.

Some construction gloves have rubber tread like a shoe to protect workers from impacts with falling tools, construction materials, and the moving parts of equipment.

For language learning, pair youth purposefully to encourage the best possible environment for collaboration

Emphasize the analogies:

• The spaghetti represent bones in a hand
• The skewer represents a tool
• The washer container represents a falling rock

Impact: the act of one thing hitting another