About This Lesson
The "Big Idea" of this standards-based unit is transportation systems move people and goods. Transportation vehicles consist of subsystems that must function together for a system to work effectively. Students will become familiar with NASA's plan for human space exploration. The following are some of the objectives of the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate/Extend, Evaluate) lessons:
Describe how a system may lose efficiency or fail if one of its subsystems is missing or malfunctioning.
