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. 

How can we improve our remote sensing devices? 

• 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.