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Moon Pies
Objective: Students will understand some of the uses for elements found on the Moon.

Cookies and Milk
Students will understand why the Moon appears to be a different shape on different nights.

Carry-On Luggage
Objective: Students will understand the difference in gravity and weight on the Earth and Moon

Ball Game
Students will understand the distance between the Earth and the Moon

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Sun Power
Objective: Students will understand the advantages of using solar collectors in space.

Are We There Yet
Objective:Students will understand distance and travel times between the Earth and the Moon.

Solar System In Your Neighborhood
Objective: Students will understand the immense distances between the planets by converting them to a scale where they can see them in their neighborhood.

Planetary Parking Lot
Objective:Students will understand the relative sizes of the Sun and planets by converting them to a scale where they can see and compare them in a parking lot.

Virtual Planetary Parking Lot
Objective: Students will understand the relative sizes of the Sun and planets by converting them to a scale where they can see and compare them on the computer screen.

Bike Ride
Objective:Students will understand the immense distances between the Sun and planets by calculating speed of light at the scale where Earth is the size of a basketball. (See the Solar System in Your Neighborhood activity)

Field Trip to the Moon
Objective: Students will understand the environment on the Moon by seeing actual photos taken there and “traveling” on the surface with the Google Moon program.

Field Trip to the Universe
Objective: Students will understand what can be seen with telescopes outside Earth’s atmosphere by using Google Sky to “see” deep into Space.

Have Space Suit - Will Travel
Objective: Students will understand the connections between science fiction of the past and what we know about the Earth-Moon system today.

The Real Thing
Objective: Students will study first person accounts and press kits for the Apollo missions to understand the differences between their technology and what we know today.

(Moon) Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spaceship!
Objective: Students will understand the complexity of historical moon rockets and vehicles of the future for lunar exploration by assembling their own paper models.

Land the Lunar Module
Objective: Through computer simulation, students will understand the factors involved in making a successful landing on the Moon.

Could You Survive a Moon Crash
Objective: Students will work as a team to understand the essentials for survival on the Moon.

How Does Your Rocket Garden Grow?
Objective: Students will understand the size of space vehicles by comparing them – virtually -- to other landmarks near their home or school.

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(Moon) Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spaceship!
Objective: Students will understand the complexity of historical moon rockets and vehicles of the future for lunar exploration by assembling their own paper models.

Could You Survive a Moon Crash
Objective: Students will work as a team to understand the essentials for survival on the Moon.

Robots on the Moon
Objective: Students will use LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots to simulate and understand how to control a telescope on the Moon from the Earth.

Escape from the Moon
Objective: Students will understand escape velocity, or the speed needed to escape the gravitational field of a body.