Explore and Discover
Your Mission: Carry weighted objects from the Exploration Area back to your Base Station to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness.
- Safely carry weighted objects from the Exploration Area back to your Base Station to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness
- Record observations about improvements in aerobic and anaerobic fitness during this physical experience in their Mission Journal
- 12 stress balls (a small object or ball students can squeeze in their palm)
- 30 balls in five different weights and sizes, such as:
- six tennis balls
- six softballs
- six soccer balls
- six six basketballs
- six large yoga balls
- 3 hula hoops
- A watch, 6 stopwatches, or clock with a second hand to take heart rate.
- Optional equipment:
- heart rate monitor
- pedometer
- markers to write space object names on balls
- six basketballs
- masking tape to write space object names on balls
- For students: Mission Journal and pencil
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