Mission to Moon - Middle School Semester STEM Unit!

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Astronomy, General Science, Engineering

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CCSS6.RP.A.1

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CCSS6.RP.A.3

CCSS7.RP.A.1

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This resource and project is AMAZING!! Full of challenges and collaboration, my students worked incredibly hard to complete their missions to the moon. Great opportunity to review the solar system!

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Transform your classroom into a team of astronauts on a Mission to the Moon! This STEM curriculum begins with Stage 1 team challenges that build teamwork and communication skills. Mission Control then guides your class through Stage 2 engineering design challenges with each unit a progressively more complex design challenge as students arrive at and explore the Moon. The final phase is to tackle the Stage 3 Moon Colony project.

Units are aligned to science and math standards along with a different career focus. Each session has an instructional video led by an engineer, editable handouts, and a complete teacher's guide.

Part 1: Mission to Moon
STEM curriculum includes 10 engineering and teamwork challenges:

Meet the Crew: Mission Patch
Astronaut Training: Roller Coaster Engineering Challenge
Astronaut Helmet: Astronaut Helmet Engineering Challenge
Plants in Space: Plant Device Engineering Challenge
Welcome Tower: Solar Power Engineering Challenge
Moon Samples: Robotic Arm Engineering Challenge
Rover Exploration: Rover Engineering Challenge
Plus 3 Bonus Challenges!

UV Shelter
Rock Sample Collection
STEM Careers BINGO

Part 2: Moon Colony Project
Students are now ready to tackle a research and design project that builds from the knowledge in part 1. Teams are tasked with designing a habitat on the Moon that to keep a crew of astronauts alive and happy. Students will need to consider questions like: How will colonists get food? What is the lunar environment like? Will our colony have a government? How do we prevent boredom? Students will apply scientific concepts, math skills, critical thinking, research, and engineering design to plan a long term habitat on the Moon. Click here to watch student project examples.

Explore the Moon: Interactive games to learn about the Moon
Moon Habitat Project Guide: A complete guide to support students through the engineering design process to think about, research, design, and build a colony on the Moon
Mission to Moon Planning Game: Students plan out a Moon Habitat using game cards that include solutions for survival on the Moon. Each solution card provides details that are based on real technologies being developed by NASA. Students then create a 3D model of the habitat.
Digital Moon Habitat Guide: A simplified version of the project is created with editable Google Slides to guide your students through all phases of the project: reflection, understanding of the Moon, research, designing, and building the lunar base.

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CCSS6.RP.A.1

Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, “The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak.” “For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.”

CCSS6.RP.A.2

Understand the concept of a unit rate 𝘢/𝘣 associated with a ratio 𝘢:𝘣 with 𝘣 ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”

CCSS6.RP.A.3

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

CCSS7.RP.A.1

Compute unit rates associated with ratios of fractions, including ratios of lengths, areas and other quantities measured in like or different units. For example, if a person walks 1/2 mile in each 1/4 hour, compute the unit rate as the complex fraction ½/¼ miles per hour, equivalently 2 miles per hour.

CCSS7.RP.A.2

Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.

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