About This Lesson
This lesson will help your students answer the question:
What are the most essential items for the survival of settlers and explorers in new worlds?
In this lesson, students will
-- Analyze and rank items based upon their importance for survival in a particular environment.
-- Work as a team to come to a consensus about the importance of certain survival items.
-- Compare team rankings to rankings developed by history and astronomy experts.
-- Identify and compare human needs in two different exploration environments.
-- Compare the differences in survival on Earth and the moon.