Students learn about the unique challenges astronauts face while eating in outer space. They explore different food choices and food packaging. Students learn about the engineering design process, and then, as NASA engineering teams, they design and build original model devices to help astronauts eat in a microgravity environment --- their own creative devices for food storage and meal preparation.

Concepts

engineering, food, microgravity, outer space, nasa, stem

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Additional Tags

digestive system, engineering design process, engineering design project, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, astronaut, engineering design process projects

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)