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Shop Zip Line STEM Activity - Moon and Mars Mission (Distance Learning)
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Zip Line STEM Activity - Moon and Mars Mission (Distance Learning)

$5.75

Your mission: Save a hurt astronaut with the use of a zipline! Includes a Moon and Mars version.

Grades: 5th - 8th 

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

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Your mission: Save a hurt astronaut with the use of a zipline! Includes a Moon and Mars version.

Grades: 5th - 8th 

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

Your mission: Save a hurt astronaut with the use of a zipline! Includes a Moon and Mars version.

Grades: 5th - 8th 

Teaching Duration: 90 minutes

“It was a super fun activity for my middle school STEAM club. It was a great way for them to use engineering skills and also have a math component. ”
— Kelsey S.
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lesson overview

Your mission: Save a hurt astronaut with the use of a zipline! Includes a Moon and Mars version.

Supports Distance Learning: Editable Google Slides for a digital STEM Journal

Science background: Students first learn about the science of zip lines including thecenter of gravity and the forces acting on the vehicle such as friction and gravity. These concepts help inform the vehicle designs.

Engineering Challenge: Using common materials such as craft sticks, paper, and tape, students then design a vehicle to carry a ping pong ball to safety down a zipline! A full teacher guide includes links to videos, photos of student projects, and resources. The packet also include handouts to guide your students through the engineering design process to solve the challenge.

STEM Real-World Connections: The challenge describes the careers of a virologist and epidemiologist. A handout on the COVID-19 pandemic is included.

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

Included in this product:

  • Detailed teachers guide with links to resources

  • Grading rubric for the engineering design process

  • STEM Career Connections

  • STEM Real-world Connection

  • Real-world STEM history and science handouts

  • Editable student handouts to guide them through the engineering design process

  • Editable Google Slides for a STEM Journal

  • Instructional STEM videos

  • Math extension problems including average speed, graphing, ratios, and angles.

  • Editable teacher slides

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