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Landing the Rover

In this team design challenge (page 19-24 of PDF), learners "land" a model Lunar Rover in a model Landing Pod (both previously built in activities #3 and #4 in PDF). Learners drop the pods containing the rovers from a prescribed height and record their observations. Learners improve (re-design and re-build) their Landing Pods based on their observations from the first drop....

Keywords:: Social Sciences, The Moon, Problem Solving, History/Policy/Law, NSDL, Drop, Physics, Number and Operations, Chemistry, General, Mass, Quality Assurance, Science and Society, Variables and Expressions, Physical Science, Research and Development, Invention and Innovation, Communicating Results, Mathematics, Motion and Forces, Science as a Career, Engineering, Design, The Design Process, Education, Algebra, NASA, Satellites and Spacecraft, Representation, Conducting Investigations, Geometry, Data Representation, Mass and Weight, Space Science, Data Analysis, Materials Science, Moon, Troubleshooting and Maintenance, Geoscience, Measurement, Data Collection, Slope, Landing Pod, Gathering Data, General Science, Rover, Technology, Lunar Rover, Data Analysis and Probability, Aerospace Engineering, Probes, Formulating Explanations

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Science and Technology / Astronomy

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Authors:: NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: Middle School
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States