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.
6th - 8th
Science, STEM
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asteroids, igneous rocks, rocks, metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks, compare and contrast, properties of rocks, types of rock, caves, engineering, volume, shelters, disasters, engineering design, design, metric conversions, unit conversion, area, basalt, limestone, granite, distance, map scales, scale factors, scale, geographic locations, location, fault lines, modes of transportation, human survival, survival, scale models
