Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Informal Education
Subject
Computer Science, Engineering Design, Technology, Communication, Robotics, Space Vehicles
Type
Educator Guides, Lesson Plans / Activities
Nine hands-on engineering projects focus on the engineering design process and real-world science, technology and mathematics.
Introduction
- *Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2, or MEDLI2
- Materials ISS Experiment-X, or MISSE-X Activity
- Laser Communication Relay, or LCR Activity
- Low Density Super Sonic Decelerator, or LDSD Activity. › Watch video
- Solar Sail Demonstration (The Sun Jammer Project) Activity
- Cryogenic Propellant Storage Transfer, or CPST Activity
- Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM Activity
- Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC Activity
- Human Exploration Telerobotics, or HET Activity
*New for 2021 and the Mars 2020 Mission of the Perseverance rover
For more information about NASA’s Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology program, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/best/index.html