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21st CENTURY EXPLORER
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Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread?
How would your body change in space?
How can we travel faster in space?
What will replace the Space Shuttle?
Why do robots travel places before people?
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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Books

Cole, Michael: Moon Base: First Colony In Space. Enslow Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 0766011186

Asimov, Isaac: Space Colonies. Gareth Stevens, 1995. ISBN: 0836812255

Cosner, Sharon: Lunar Bases. Franklin Watts, 1990. ISBN: 0531108945

 

Web Sites

Robotic Lunar Exploration
Learn more about the moon with these games and activities. http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/outreach/forkids.html

Earth’s Moon: Our Favorite Satellite
Get a kid’s eye view of the moon at the web site. http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Moon&Display=Kids

Imagine Mars
This interactive web site about a Mars colony lets you see what a moon colony could be like.
http://imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov/index1.html
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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 D: Earth and Space Science

  • Properties of Earth materials (K–4)
  • Structure of the Earth system (5–8)

Content Standard F: Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

  • Science and technology in local challenges (K–8)

NNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards (NCTM)

Data Analysis and Probability Standard

  • Develop predictions that are based on data

International Technology Education Association (ITEA)

Technology and Society

  • Standard 7: Students will develop an understanding of the influence of technology on history.

U.S. National Geography Standards (NCGE)

  • Standard 14: How human actions modify the physical environment
  • Standard 16: The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources