STAYING COOL DESIGN CHALLENGE
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How
do you keep things from getting too hot?
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Level:
Grades 2 - 4
Duration:
Three or four 30 - 40 minute periods
Lesson
Summary
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Design challenges are intended to focus on real-life situations
that give students the chance to deal with many of the same
issues in which scientists, engineers, and researchers are
confronted in their laboratories and their computers everyday.
Using the "Staying Cool" theme addressed in the
MESSENGER Education Modules, we challenge your students to
work as a team to design and build an effective sunshade for
a model MESSENGER spacecraft.
Back
to Scientific Process Modules
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Essential
Question
How does the amount
of sunlight and heat change in areas that are shades?
Essential
Concepts
- Light is a form
of energy.
- Tools help scientists
make observations, measurements, and discoveries of things that
could not otherwise see, calculate, and do.
- People have always
had problems and invented tools and techniques to solve these
problems. Trying to determine the effects of solutions helps
people avoid some new problems. Scientists and engineers often
work in teams with different individuals doing different things
that contribute to the results. This understanding focuses primarily
on teams working together and secondarily, on the combination
of scientist and engineer teams.
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