STEM Space Moon Crater Design Challenge (Engineering Design Process)

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4th - 9th, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Science, Astronomy, Engineering

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Projects, Activities, Laboratory

Standards

CCSS6.G.A.1

CCSS6.G.A.2

CCSS6.G.A.3

CCSS6.G.A.4

CCSS7.G.B.4

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Can your team of astronauts work together to land a rover in the center of a crater on the Moon?

This engaging STEM challenge is a fun way to incorporate the engineering design process into your classroom or afterschool program! Students use the engineering design process and explore the forces of motion to place a ball in a cup at the center of a 6 foot diameter circle without entering the circle. This challenge represents placing a NASA rover into the middle of the Apollo lunar crater for exploration as a potential human colony site. This challenge is great for a space exploration unit or learning about the moon.

This packet includes:

Detailed teacher guide with links to resources
Editable Teacher Presentation Slides
Editable student handouts to guide them through the design process
Student recording sheet for each step of the process
Math connection problems including ratios and geometry (circles)

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33 pages

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Teaching Duration

2 hours

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS6.G.A.1

Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.2

Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with fractional edge lengths by packing it with unit cubes of the appropriate unit fraction edge lengths, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths of the prism. Apply the formulas 𝘝 = 𝘭 𝘸 𝘩 and 𝘝 = 𝘣 𝘩 to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.3

Draw polygons in the coordinate plane given coordinates for the vertices; use coordinates to find the length of a side joining points with the same first coordinate or the same second coordinate. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS6.G.A.4

Represent three-dimensional figures using nets made up of rectangles and triangles, and use the nets to find the surface area of these figures. Apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.

CCSS7.G.B.4

Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.

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