MESSENGER Education Modules:
The Scientific Process in Action
Each Unit in this Theme can be told as a sotry in three chapters. Each chapter asks a question which is addressed in the corresponding lesson. Click on the lessons below to find an overview and downloadable version of the lesson.
Staying Cool
| How can we study Mercury? | Are there any problems we might face? | Are there ways to solve these problems? | Design Challenges | |
| Grades | Lessons | |||
| Pre-K-4 | Sensing Energy | Cooler in the Shadows | Design Challenge: What will keep my lunchbox cool? | |
| Design Challenge: Keep it Cool! How do you keep thing from getting too hot? | ||||
| 5-8 | Herschel Experiment | Snow Goggles | My Angle on Cooling. Effects of Distance and Inclination | Design Challenge: How to keep gelatin from melting |
| 9-12 | Star Power! Discovering the Power of Sunlight | Dangers of Radiation Exposure | Cooling with Sunshades | Design Challenge: How to keep items cool in boiling water |
Spacecraft Design
| How do you design/build a spacecraft to go to another planet? | How do you get there? | What do you do when you get there? | |
| Grades | Lessons | ||
| Pre-K-4 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 5-8 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| 9-12 | TBD | TBD | TBD |
