Your Mission: Track your space adventures, monitor progress, and reflect on your journey in your Mission X Journal. Let your students keep track of their Mission X activities in their own personal logbook. It features …
Your Mission: Follow the development of three plants for 12 weeks to explore germination and plant growth. If astronauts are going to settle on the Moon, or explore further reaches of our Solar System, they …
Your Mission: Identify which plants are suitable for growing in space as a good source of nutrition for astronauts. Food is one of the most important parts of our lives because it provides the fuel …
Your Mission: Investigate which factors affect plant growth, and relate these factors to growing plants in space. All the things we take for granted on Earth are either absent or different in space. In space, …
Your Mission: Discover the fat content of a meal and formulate a balanced meal using fat content information. As astronauts travel to the moon, Mars, and beyond, the need for nutritionally balanced meals becomes even …
Your Mission: Explore the anatomy of the hand and build a bionic hand from cardboard. In a near future, it is expected that crews of astronauts and humanoid robots will work together to exploit space. …
Your Mission: Explore taste sensations on the tongue and experiment to see which senses influence taste. For astronauts, all their food and drink needs to be carried to the International Space Station (ISS). Eating is …
Your Mission: Observe and compare bones, and design bone models to investigate ways to keep bones healthy. Explorers need strong bones so they can face the physical challenges placed on their bodies while in space. …
Your Mission: Perform a reaction time activity using a ruler to practice hand-eye coordination and concentration. In preparation for space travel, astronauts invest many hours in practicing their hand-eye reaction time. Operating the robotic arm …
Your Mission: Perform throwing and catching techniques on one foot to improve balance and spatial awareness. On Earth, we use a variety of cues to sense the position of our bodies, while stationary or moving. …