Moon Rocks: Mysteries of the Moon

Susan KohlerSusan.m.kohler@nasa.govAerospace Education SpecialistAeronautics Education Services ProjectNASA Glenn Research Center

MOON DANCE http://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/index.cfml

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Group Roles

Project Manager • Checks the team’s work. • Asks the instructor questions. • Leads team discussions. • Is in charge of safety.Engineer • Is in charge of getting the design completed. • Makes the supply list. • Approves the design after construction. Logistics • Collects the supplies and equipment. • Returns supplies and equipment. • Makes sure to use only what is needed. Scientist • Records all information. • Makes sure written reports are completed. • Fills out forms of any kind for the team. • Makes team reports to the rest of the group.

Play-doh Scales

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/play_doh_planets.cfm

Solar System Exploration SSE Home  >  Education  >  Build Your Own Solar System  >  Classroom  >  Worlds in Comparison: Play-Doh Planets

Let’s Divide

Activity procedures | EARTH – MOON

1.Have students predict and make models of the size and distance of the MOON in relation to the EARTH.

2.Divide the Play-doh into 50 equal sized balls (as equal as possible). Choose an average sized ball and set it aside. Squash the other 49 back together. You now have the EARTH and MOON.

3.Now comes the relative distance. The distance between the EARTH and the MOON should be equal to 30 EARTH diameters.

4.Have students compare their original model with the scale model they just created. Get them to think about why they thought that before. (NOTE: the misconception of the relative size and distance between the EARTH and the MOON is due to perspective which comes from the photographs we have all seen of both. In order to get both the EARTH and the MOON in the same photo, one has to take a photo of them one in front of the other and slightly off to one side.

Google Moon

http://www.google.com/moon/

With Moon in Google Earth, you can:

Take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts

View 3D models of landed spacecraft

Zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts' footprints

Watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions

Google Moon http://www.google.com/moon

These six missions of the Apollo Program, which lasted from 1963 to 1972, were the first and last times that Mankind has set foot on another world

Apollo 14 http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ap

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Exploring the Moon Teachers Guidehttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Exploring.the.Moon.html

The activities in this guide promote problem solving, communication skills and teamwork. Earth and space science subjects include lunar geology and regolith, distance to the moon, Apollo landing sites and life support systems.

Focused on Grades 4-12.

eClips: Rock Cyclehttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/nasaeclips/search.html?terms=rock%20cycle Find out how rocks brought to Earth by the Apollo astronauts have helped NASA learn more about the rock cycle. Compare igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks found on Earth to three types of rocks found on the moon.

Rock ABC’s Activity http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180557main_ETM.Rock.Fact.Sheet.pdf

MaterialsRock Sample

◦Play-doh ◦Beads

Rock ABC Fact Sheet

Data sheet

Challenge: Determine the

Classification of the rock sample your group has discovered.

Active Accretion“Birth ,Death, Rebirth”The universe is a dynamic place in which stars and planets are continually changing, dying, and being formed from the debris of earlier generations. A Star’s life cycle, including birth and death, depends on its mass. High mass stars die quickly (in millions of years) while low mass stars live a very long time (billions of years). When stars die, they recycle elements that can become other stars, sometimes planets and maybe life.

Discussion http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/ActiveAccretion.pdf

1.What happened to the student dust particles at the beginning of the game?

2. How did the student chondrules interact with the student dust particles? Was the movement of the two students the same or different?

3. What happened when there were chondrites? Was the movement of the two students after the interaction the same or different? Was the movement of student dust particles the same as that of the student chondrules?

4. What did you notice about the dust particles at the end of the activity?

5. How does this simulation relate to the accretion of asteroids in the early solar system?

a. In what ways do you think it is similar? b. In what ways do you think it is different? 6. What would happen if another large group of (maybe 100) students,

which might represent a large planet like Jupiter, entered the circular path where you have been running?

Differentiation Collect2 cups

◦Water◦Materials

Marshmallows Pasta Raisins Nuts Mini M and M’s Goldfish

Design The Experiment

Predict what will happen to the materials when they are placed in water

Report:What you thought would happen.Your procedure.What happened.Convince me you need more resources

and /or time.

Differentiation: Discussion

When planets begin to melt, the materials in them begin to separate from one another.The heaviest materials, such as metallic iron, sink to form cores. Low density magmasrise forming crusts. This process is called differentiation.

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180570main_ETM.Differentiation.pdf

Discussion

To learn about the stratigraphy of lava flows produced by multiple eruptions on the moon topography

Lava Layering

. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/Map_Volcano.pdf

Make a map of an unknown volcano and show the sequence of flows.

Interpret the map data and infer the subsurface extent of the flows

Predict where excavations will give the most information

Simulate both natural and human excavations

Write a short geologic history of the volcano

Lava LayeringMaterials

4 colors of play-doh Cardboard base

( 10cmX10cm)

Colored pencils 2 Small drink cups

Baking soda Vinegar

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/180574main_ETM.Lava.Layering.pdf

Space Musical

Meteor WRONG BLUES Righthttp://discovery.nasa.gov/musical/meteor.cfml

Experiment of Meteor right and Meteor Wrongs

http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/meteorite/experiment.asp

How do scientists identify meteorites?

We will use the properties of meteorites to help distinguish meteorites from “meteor-wrongs” — samples from the Earth that may have some properties like meteorites.

We will use several tests and compile the results into a table

Meteorite Impact

Impact Craters How to Make a Crater

Meteoroidshttp://discovery.nasa.g

ov/musical/meteor.html

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/docs/MM_Suppl_Guide_v1.pdf

What kind of predictions will you make?

How will you measure the impact?

How does this relate to lunar rocks?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/videos/playVideo.cfm?videoID=14

Lunar Math

The topic for this collection is Lunar Exploration . It starts withNASA's launch in 2009 of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This satellite surveyed the Moon for water ice, and measured theMoon's radiation environment in preparation for manned landingsbetween 2017 and 2025. For more information, visit the LRO website at http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/377727main_Lunar_Math.pdf

Lunar Rock Sample

http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/181087main_ETM.Lunar.Disk.pdf

Lunar Rock Security

Complete both forms

lunar security video.xspf

What Kind of World Do You Want?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=100242111 Although STS-135 was the final space shuttle mission, the International Space Station will continue an uninterrupted human presence in space. This music video featuring the space station and its crews is set to the song "World" by recording artists Five for Fighting.

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