What is water worth to you? The answer probably depends on many different variables. Learners explore the value of water in space and what it takes to transport the resource to locations in a galaxy far far away. They then consider mining water from asteroids and compare a traditional mining approach to one involving robots and 3-D printers.

Concepts

design, cost-benefit analysis, non-renewable resources, robots, mining, asteroids

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign a different element to each group to research
• Have one person from each group rotate through groups to present their information

Classroom Considerations

• Requires pupils to make calculations with percents

Pros

• Includes links to additional resources
• Provides a key with sample solutions

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSN-Q.A.2 HSA-CED.A.3