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Crashed On the Moon

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Young scholars compare/contrast the environments of our moon and earth, and examine examples of how these differences would affect their daily activities on our moon. They develop lists of emergency supplies to bring if their spaceship crashed on the moon.

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space travel, the earth, the moon

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earth, moon, space travel, science
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7th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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