bESTology 2024 – Lesson 7 – Lunar Rocks
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Welcome to bESTology 2024
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During the bESTology lessons, you are going to act as a realtor and your goal is to gather enough information so you can sell property in outer space, specifically the moon.
So, as you prepare your rockets for launch and take off for your journey into outer space, we wish you the BEST of luck and may you always stay in LOW G
The ten lessons in front of you are going to prepare you for the LOW G BEST season and help your team understand the concepts needed to sell property on another planet.
You might think this is far-fetched, but it really isn’t.
So, gather your team and become the next BEST realtor.
LESSON 7 – LUNAR ROCKS
Welcome to lesson 7, Lunar Rocks.
Remember, your goal during bESTology is to become a licensed realtor and sell property in space. In order to be a licensed realtor, you will need to know about conditions on different plants so you can talk to your clients in a professional manner.
This lesson of bESTology we will learn about Rocks of the Moon or Lunar Rocks.
RESOURCES
LINK | URL |
| NASA | https://www.nasa.gov/ |
| BEST ROBOTICS | https://www.bestrobotics.org/site/ |
| NASA Learning Resources | https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/ |
| SMITHSONIAN | NATIONAL AND SPACE MUSEUM |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | THE ROCK CYCLE |
RESEARCH
Let us take a little journey back to elementary school, 5th grade, when we learned the rock cycle. Visit the Nation al Geographic link in the resources section and familiarize yourself with the Rock Cycle.
Draw a ldiagram of the rock cycle with the different types of rocks, how they are formed, and where they can be found.
ACTIVITY
As we prepare ourselves to be realtors on the Moon, we need to learn about the surface of the moon. Last lesson we learned about Regolith, Moon Dust, and this week we are learning about Lunar Rocks.
How did scientist learn about these structures? Lunar Missions. There have been several Lunar Missions where scientists have gathered soil and rocks from the Moon’s surface in order to study.
In this activity you will make a timeline, a chart, or a table to document the mission, where on the moon it was located, and what type of particle they discovered.
Pay attention to the composition of the particles and see hoe they compare to rocks on earth as you have just completed a rock cycle refresher.
BEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Rock scavenger hunt. Over the next few weeks and during the summer, you might be traveling around the country. Become young scientist as you gather rock dsamples from your travels and then come back home and see if you can identify theior composition.
Even if you are not traveling around the country, look in your community, maybe near a creek or other fun places. Gather some rocks and then make a rock display trying to figure out what type of rock they are and where do they fit into the rock cycle.
This might not be your favorit ROCK song, but it is a rock song and you might just love it.
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