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Settlement Exploration: Then and Now

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NASA has crafted an imaginative and memorable series of lessons, "NASA and Jamestown Education Module." This lesson is one of the five components. In it, middle schoolers connect history and science by comparing the settlement of Jamestown in the 1600s to a future settlement of the lunar surface. They consider three factors: location, soil, and weather conditions. This is a must-see! Implement it into your astronomy curriculum, US history studies, or fashion an entire interdisciplinary unit from it.

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natural resources, soil, the moon, the american colonies, colonial america, settlements

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american colonies, moon, natural resources, settlement, soil, lunar surface, regolith, weather, science
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6th - 8th
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Science
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5 days
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