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21st CENTURY EXPLORER
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How can we travel faster in space?
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Why return to the Moon before going to Mars?
Why do we want to study and travel to Mars?
Where would a space explorer find water and oxygen?
What would you find on the Moon’s surface?
What would you hear in a weather report from Mars?
How will your imagination help you become an explorer?
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Glossary

Bahamas - an island country in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida and Cuba made up of some 700 islands and islets and numerous cays; gained its independence from Great Britain in 1973

circumnavigate – travel around, either by plane or ship

Jamestown - a former village of southeast Virginia; the first permanent English settlement in America; founded in May 1607 and named for the reigning monarch, James I

probes - an exploratory action, expedition, or device, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region
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NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS
National Science Education Standards (NSES)

Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (K–8)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry (K–8)

Content Standard G: History and Nature of Science

  • Science as a human endeavor (K–8)

Unifying Concepts and Processes

  • Evidence, models, and explanation (K–8)

National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE)

The World in Spatial Terms

  • Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information.

International Technology Education Association (ITEA)

Technology and Society

  • Standard 6: The role of society in the development and use of technology.
  • Standard 7: The influence of technology on history.