Water on Mars | Teach with space T02
Students will design and develop an entire space mission to Mars. The objective of the mission is to send a programmed LEGO rover to the surface of the Red Planet and study water state changes. Students will take temperature measurements and interpret the data collected to understand how the temperature of a substance evolves during a change of state (liquid to solid and solid to liquid).
Learning objectives
- To program a robot to reach a location
- To collect data with a temperature sensor
- To use robotic tools to explore scientific content
- To develop scientific experiments and engineering skills, for determining and controlling individual experiment parameters
- To design an experimental procedure to observe different types of state changes
- To identify temperature steps on a graph
- To schematise state changes
- To model data or processes to answer scientific questions
- To work and communicate together as a team
Resource available in:
Subject:
- Physics, Technology
Age:
- Age 12-15, Age 12-19, Age 15-19
Time:
- Up to 1 hour
Space theme:
- Planetary Exploration, Solar System, Space Technology
English