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21st CENTURY EXPLORER
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How would your body change 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?
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HOW WOULD YOUR BODY CHANGE IN SPACE?
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circadian rhythm – daily rhythmic activity cycle, based on 24-hour intervals

resistive exercises – exercises that provide opposing forces such as lifting weights or stretching a rubber band
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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 C: Life Science

  • The characteristics of organisms (K-4)
  • Organisms and their environment (K-4)
  • Structure and function in living systems (5-8)
  • Diversity and adaptations of organisms (5-8)

Content Standard E: Science and Technology

  • Abilities of technological design (K–8)

Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

  • Changes in environments (K-4)

National Health Education Standards (NHES)

Standard 4: Students will analyze the influence of culture, media technology and other factors on health.

  • Describe ways technology can influence personal health (K-4)

INational Mathematics Education Standards (NCTM)

Data Analysis and Probability Standard

  • Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
    • collect data using observations, surveys, and experiments
  • Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
    • propose and justify conclusions and predictions that are based on data and design studies to further investigate the conclusions and predictions