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Adventure Engineering Challenge: Asteroid Impact
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Adventure Engineering Challenge: Asteroid Impact

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Oh, no! An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth!. The challenge, should your students choose to accept it, is to design underground survival caverns to shelter people for one year. Over the course of eight lessons, engineering teams must explore maps, determine the size of the caverns, identify and test rocks, and choose and defend the location of their site. The activities follow the steps of the engineering design process.

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area, asteroids, caves, compare and contrast, design, disasters, distance, engineering design, igneous rocks, location, map scales, metric conversions, modes of transportation, rocks, scale, scale factors, scale models, sedimentary rocks, shelters, survival, types of rock, unit conversion, volume, fault lines, basalt, geographic locations, granite, human survival, limestone, metamorphic rocks, properties of rocks, engineering

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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Common Core

MP4 5.MD.C.5.b 6.RP.A.3.d 6.NS.B.3 6.SP.A.1 7.EE.B.4.a 7.G.A.1 7.G.B.6 7.SP.A.1 8.G.B.6 8.G.C.9

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    Incoming Asteroid! What's the Problem?

    Incoming Asteroid! What's the Problem?

    Activity
    How Big?

    How Big?

    Activity
    Using Map Scales to Figure Distances and Areas

    Using Map Scales to Figure Distances and Areas

    Activity
    Identifying Possible Underground Cavern Locations

    Identifying Possible Underground Cavern Locations

    Activity
    Rocks, Rocks, Rocks

    Rocks, Rocks, Rocks

    Activity
    Ranking the Rocks

    Ranking the Rocks

    Activity
    Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please

    Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please

    Activity
    Building and Testing Model Underground Safety Caverns

    Building and Testing Model Underground Safety Caverns

    Activity
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