Astronaut Wearable Device Engineering Activity (Space & STEM)

lesson overview

Design a wearable device for an astronaut STEM Challenge! This is a great space-themed STEM engineering design challenge.

Activity Overview: The astronauts are heading up to the International Space Station (ISS) for a three-month mission. It is important they take care of their bodies with consistent exercise. But the ISS can be really loud, so they need to wear a device while exercising that would allow them to communicate to their fellow astronauts if they are in distress!

Students will first learn about circuits, how the human body changes in space, and then create their own light-up wearable device for an astronaut.

Real-world STEM Connection:

• Career Connection: Astronaut, Biomedical Engineer

• How Circuits Work Science Background

• Overview of Exercising in Space

*Note: This product is the same as the wearable device sports challenge except with different STEM career and real-world connection pages.

As with many STEM activities, this challenge can be tailored to students of various skill levels and abilities.

Included in this product:

• Detailed teachers guide with links to resources

• Photos and videos of student examples

• Student handouts to guide them through the design process

• Videos to motivate and support learning

• Editable Google Slides STEM journal for distance learning

• STEM Career Connections and real-world examples

• Science handouts on how circuits work

• Student recording sheet for each step of the process

• Math connection problems

Suggested Materials: Many different materials can be used for this challenge. Here are some suggestions that worked well for our students.

• Aluminum foil

• LED light

• 3V coin cell battery

• Construction paper

• Cardstock

• Scissors

• Tape

• Ruler

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