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Building Your Space Station

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Students discuss the benefits of the International Space Station. They evaluate the challenges the designers faced when trying to design the space station. Students discuss the use of scale models when designing large structures and create their own model space station with a given set of specifications and materials.

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design, the international space station

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design, international space station, model, descriptive modeling, math
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
3 days
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning

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