NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber

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NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Lunar Plant Growth Chamber

Url:

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/plantgrowth/home/index.html

Publisher:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description: Growing plants on Earth can be hard enough, but what about growing plants in outer space? NASA takes on that very subject in this site designed to help educators address the rather intriguing subject of lunar plant growth. This particular resource is part of the NASA Engineering Design Challenge for students in grades K-12, and visitors can register to take part online at this site. Teachers can elect to participate in a variety of ways, and they will find complete guides that detail how to design, build, and evaluate a lunar plant growth chamber. While space may in fact be the final frontier in many regards, the sustained cultivation of various crops to give astronauts sustenance while they are out on their mission may be the extension of that frontier. The materials presented here are more than a bit fun, and they may get students thinking about a future career in engineering or the space sciences.

LC Classification:

Science -- Botany -- Plant physiology -- Instruments and apparatus -- Phytotrons and growth chambers
Science -- Botany -- Plant physiology -- Physical plant physiology -- Growth. Development
Science -- Botany -- Plant physiology -- Study and teaching. Research
Science -- Botany -- Plant physiology -- Study and teaching. Research -- Problems, exercises, examinations
Technology -- Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics. -- Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics -- Astronautics. Space travel -- Flights to special planets, etc. By planet, A-Z -- Moon

GEM Subject:

Science
Science -- Engineering
Science -- Technology
Science -- Instructional issues
Science -- Space sciences

Key Concept:

Astronomy -- Moon
Botany
Geology -- Soils

Resource Type:

Reference Material
Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Lesson/Lesson Plan

Format:

Document -- PDF
Document -- HTML

Audience:

Educator
Learner

Education Level:

High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Upper Division)
Higher Education -- Technical Education (Lower Division)
Vocational/Professional Development Education

Language:

English

Access Rights:

Free access with registration

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