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In an epic science and engineering adventure for rising 4th and 5th graders, students work together to design a mission to Mars!
Through this creative science camp, students grapple with practical STEM challenges and solutions. As they plot a route across the solar system, they explore velocity, acceleration, planets, rockets, and gravity. To execute an engineering project — an interplanetary spaceship — they study life support systems, solar flares, and the psychological challenges of space. As they engage in these engaging simulations, students conduct experiments, analyze results, and always learn from their mistakes!
PREVIOUS COURSE: STEM Camp 3-4: Rising Lab Beasts
The course is organized around a simulation of solar systems and space travel. Working with this simulation, students find joy in success, and learning in failure - as they create their own science-based stories of missions to the Moon, and to Mars. In the first week, students work towards a successful mission to the Moon. Each lesson will have a survival portion, where students explore issues of life support, biology, engineering, and space weather. Each lesson will also have a route planning portion, where students learn about vectors, velocity, acceleration, gravity, and orbital dynamics. In the second week, students will attempt the harder task of completing a mission to Mars. Each lesson will again have both a survival portion and a route planning portion, but both tasks will become more challenging. There will be more complexity, more realism, more obstacles - and more opportunities for creative, science-based solutions.
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