PowerPoint Presentation - Blazing Galactic Trails

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Blazing Galactic Trails Space Day 2004 (May
6) Design Challenges Sponsored by the Space
Day Foundation and Lockheed Martin
Corporation
Extreme Explorer
Space Trek
Galactic Gear
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DESIGN CHALLENGE 1 Space Trek
Your Challenge As 21st century explorers, your
team will keep an electronic journal about a
planet, moon or asteroid in our solar system that
you choose to explore. You will need to include
your expedition plans, as well as several daily
entries about exploring this new environment.
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DESIGN CHALLENGE 2 Galactic Gear

• Your Challenge
• Your team of world class explorers and engineers
  will design and build a tool that can be used to
  explore and/or survive on another planet. The
  tool should have more than one use and be compact
  enough for an explorer to easily carry.

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DESIGN CHALLENGE 3 Extreme Explorer
Your Challenge Assume the roles of aerospace
engineers and planetary scientists. Design an
exploration vehicle that can explore a region on
another planet or moon in our solar system.
Decide what information you want to collect about
the planet, and determine how your vehicle will
gather that information.
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KWL JOURNAL (You will fill this form out)

• What I Know.
• What I Want to know.
• What I Learned.

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Additional Journal Documents (The Next Step)

• Research topics

Brainstorming
Your Journals will be assessment tools. The
Design Challenges provide the journal pages.
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You will brainstorm with your team
What types of tools, vehicles and/or equipment do
you think planetary explorers will need when
traveling to and exploring another part of our
solar system?
BE CREATIVE!
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After brainstorming and discussion, you will
begin to design your tools.

• Design Sheet

Students are responsible for submitting scale
diagrams. This meets specific mathematics
standards.
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Whats Next...

• For teams?
• Test the tool to see if it works.
• Collect observations and data. Videotaping the
  data collection is optional.
• Make improvements.
• Retest the tool.

• Many specific standards are being met in
• Science
• Mathematics
• Technology

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How can you make sure your project is complete?
Complete the student assessment.
Review the rubric
Look at the requirements list on the submission
form.
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How will we start?

• To get motivated about Space Exploration, lets
  have a debate!
• Teams will debate each other on the very question
  of whether or not we should even be in space!
• The Space Debate

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But first
Space Trek

• Lets group up.
• Teams need to be no more than three people (I
  want ten teams max total).
• Choose your teams - and teammates - according to
  which challenge you want!

Galactic Gear
Extreme Explorer