• Grades: 6-8
• Capacity: 30 students
• Duration: 75 minutes
• Cost: $140
• Offered Wednesday at 10:15 a.m.

Next Generation Science Standards

Science and Engineering Practices:

• Asking questions and defining problems
• Developing and using models
• Planning and carrying out investigations
• Analyzing and interpreting data
• Using mathematics and computational thinking
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions
• Engaging in argument from evidence
• Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information

Crosscutting Concepts:

• Patterns
• Cause and effect
• Scale, proportion and quantity
• Systems and system models
• Structure and function
• Stability and change

Disciplinary Core Ideas:

PS 2: Motion and stability
PS 3: Energy
ESS 1: Earth's place in the universe
ESS 3: Earth and human activity
ETS 1: Engineering design
ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society

Lab goals

Students will:

• Explore STEM with a focus on NASA research, missions, goals and aims.
• Communicate effectively with peers and adult role models and practice 21st century science and technology skills.
• Work collaboratively to tackle many of the same challenges that NASA scientists are confronting themselves in the effort to travel to and inhabit Mars.
• Engage in inquiry-based and hands-on science learning experiences.
• Be exposed to working scientists and other personnel at partnering NASA centers.