Have you ever wondered why it takes such a long period of time for NASA to build space exploration equipment? What is involved in manufacturing and building a rover for the Red Planet? During this lesson, students will discover the journey that a Mars rover embarks upon after being designed by engineers and before being prepared for launch. Students will investigate the fabrication techniques, tolerance concepts, assembly and field-testing associated with a Mars exploratory rover.

Concepts

engineering, mars rover, stem

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Additional Tags

rover design, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, building the mars rover, mars exploration rovers, motors and machines

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)