Description
Product details: 138 pages, 10,500 words, including many images, sketches, and video links.
Ten free lessons: I am an Aeronautical Engineer (Modeling in Minecraft and a STEM PROJECT – Water-propelled Rocket).
Complete lessons and resources for teachers and students (Secondary School).
Age groups:
Complete lessons and resources for teachers and students (Secondary School). Suitable for 14-year-old to 17-year-old students (High School). Could also be adapted for senior primary school (12- to 14-year-old students).
OVERVIEW:
This resource (set of 10 lessons) include everything related to aeronautical science and space exploration. Teachers and students will find it exciting and very useful. The ten lessons include:
- The study of the International Space Station (ISS).
- Specific aspects of sleeping in space, eating in space, the effect of gravity (bone density weakens/eye pressure drops, etc.) and more are discussed.
- The work of Herman Potočnik and Wernher Von Braun (space research pioneers) are touched on. Space-wheel-concepts are explored.
- Elon Musk, from SpaceX, is also studied.
- Ideas for living on Mars and the Moon are explored.
- Space wheel gravitation, concepts of Potočnik & Von Braun, are explained.
- A STEM project — design and build water-propelled rockets — is included.
- Minecraft Education activities are included — related to the lessons (Mars or Moon colonies.
- Additional – at the end of the resource – some of the author’s freehand sketches (fountain pen and watercolours): Mars Pod (housing), and a Mars Rover. References to Designboom and AI Space Factory articles.
Minecraft Education Activities:
Fun activities like modelling the ISS, designing a spacecraft and designing a home in outer space (for example, design a pod for Mars living) — are some of the lessons’ challenges. The ten fun classes cover a large area of space study. Scientific concepts are embedded and conclude a STEM-based competition (building a water rocket and competition). As a teacher, I have delivered these lessons to Junior Secondary School students, and they love it! Note some aspects in the lessons have been repeated – repetition is useful to improve knowledge retention.
Overarching Learning Intentions:
- Learn about space living, space travel
- Learn about living on Mars and the challenges it poses
- Learn important scientific and engineering concepts required for space design
- Learn about Elon Musk od SpaceX
- Learn about the past space engineers and aeronautical experts like Herman Potočnik and Wernher von Braun. The pioneers of rotating and suspended (‘flying-wheel’ design) space stations.
CONTENTS
List of the 10 Aeronautical Engineer Lessons. Page 2
OVERVIEW: Page 8
Minecraft Education Activities: 9
Overarching Learning Intentions: 9
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 12
Lesson 1 – What is Peer-to-Peer and Space Collaboration?. 12
The incredible collaboration behind the International Space Station – Tien Nguyen (TED Talk) 14
ACTIVITIES: 16
Minecraft Competition: Model your own ISS in your groups (work collaboratively together). Creative mode. 17
Minecraft Competition: Collaboratively (in your groups) create an ISS. 19
Level 2: Demonstrate understanding of sociocultural factors, and how competing priorities are managed, in technology. 21
Research: 23
Modelling the ISS on Minecraft Education. 24
About our collaboration when modelling the ISS on Minecraft: 25
Planning the rocket 27
Building the rocket 29
How we have worked together to produce a successful rocket 31
Conclusion: 31
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 35
Lesson 2: More on Space Collaboration. 35
The article: 15 Strategies for Peer Teaching Success. 38
ACTIVITIES: 39
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 40
Lesson 3 – The Different Units or Components of the ISS (International Space Station) – The Layout 40
Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Chef Traci Des Jardins Make a Space Burrito. 42
Activities: 43
International Space Station: Live Inside Space Station Viewing Sunita Williams Space Journey Tour 43
Activities: 45
Minecraft Competition: Model your rocket or ‘vehicle’ in your groups (getting to the ISS and back). 45
Here is the Minecraft Competition marking schedule again: Collaboratively (in your groups) create an ISS. 47
HOW TO MAKE A ROCKETSHIP IN Minecraft (PE, PS4/3, Xbox, Switch) 47
Plenary: 48
Next steps: 49
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 51
Lesson 4 – Minecraft Education Modelling of the ISS – Collaboration in your Groups (competition) 51
Do Now: 52
Collaboration: The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration. 52
For example: 53
Soyuz Launch & Docking Space Station ISS – Video. 54
Activities: 56
Level 2: Demonstrate an understanding of sociocultural factors, and how competing priorities are managed, in technology. 56
Minecraft Competition: Model your rocket or ‘vehicle’ in your groups (getting to the ISS and back). 56
In Minecraft, in your groups, plan and design a way to get to your ISS and back to Earth. 57
Consider the following: 57
Here is the Minecraft Competition marking schedule again: Collaboratively (in your groups) create an ISS. 58
HOW TO MAKE A ROCKETSHIP IN Minecraft (PE, PS4/3, Xbox, Switch) 58
Marking criteria: The rocket or ‘vehicle’ (transportation) 58
Plenary: 59
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 60
Lesson 5 – Space Vehicles: Rocket Design (Minecraft Education – A Rocket Design Competition) 60
Water rocket with a parachute: 62
Learning Objectives: 64
Activities: 65
Remember to include the following titles to your Google Doc: 65
Level 2: Demonstrate an understanding of sociocultural factors, and how competing priorities are managed, in technology. 65
Minecraft Competition: Model your ISS and rocket or ‘vehicle’ in your groups (getting to the ISS and back). 65
In Minecraft, in your groups, plan and design a ‘method’ (spacecraft) to travel from the ISS and back to Earth. Consider the following: 66
Here is the Minecraft Competition marking schedule again: Collaboratively (in your groups) create an ISS. 66
HOW TO MAKE A ROCKETSHIP IN Minecraft (PE, PS4/3, Xbox, Switch) 66
Marking criteria: The rocket or ‘vehicle’ (transportation) 67
Plenary: 68
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 71
Lesson 6 – The Study of Control Surfaces of Planes and Spacecraft. 71
Do Now: Watch Video. 72
How to fold a paper plane. 76
WEBSITE: 77
Continue with Minecraft modelling ISS and spacecraft 79
Water rocket with a parachute: 80
Learning Objectives for this lesson: 82
Activities: 83
Level 2: Demonstrate an understanding of sociocultural factors, and how competing priorities are managed, in technology. 83
Minecraft Competition: Model your ISS and rocket or ‘vehicle’ in your groups (getting to the ISS and back). 83
In Minecraft, in your groups, plan and design a ‘method’ (spacecraft) to travel from the ISS and back to Earth. Consider the following: 84
Here is the Minecraft Competition marking schedule again: Collaboratively (in your groups) create an ISS. 85
HOW TO MAKE A ROCKETSHIP IN Minecraft (PE, PS4/3, Xbox, Switch) 85
Marking criteria: The rocket or ‘vehicle’ (transportation) 85
Plenary: 86
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 87
Lesson 7 – Space Junk. 87
Collaboration challenge: Design a Space Junk Catcher or any other system to remove space junk. 89
Project West Ford. 90
Activities: 93
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 96
Lesson 8: The Work of Space Pioneer Elon Musk (SpaceX). 96
About video 1: 97
About video 2: 99
About video 3: 100
ACTIVITY: 101
Who is Elon Musk?. 101
About the video: 102
ACTIVITY: 102
Challenge: Design a small Mars colony in Minecraft. 103
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 105
Lesson 9: The Rotating Space Station Concept – the Ideas of Herman Potočnik (Hungarian astrophysicist) 105
Space Stations: Past, Present, And Future | Answers with Joe. 106
About this video: 107
ACTIVITY: 107
Biography of Herman Potočnik|Herman Noordung|Slovene rocket engineer|Astronautics| 107
ACTIVITY: 110
Continue with the Space challenge: Design a small Mars colony in Minecraft or a floating space colony. 111
Learning intentions for this lesson: 111
Making a water rocket in class: 111
ACTIVITY: 112
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 114
Lesson 10: Comparing the Work of Space Engineers Herman Potočnik and Wernher von Braun – Long-term Human Habitation of Space. 114
Biography of Herman Potočnik|Herman Noordung|Slovene rocket engineer|Astronautics| 115
Von Braun’s Space Wheel: 117
Read the BBC article: 121
ACTIVITY: 121
Learning intentions of this lesson: 122
ACTIVITY: 122
I am an Aeronautical Engineer 124
Additional Mars Design Ideas from AI Space Factory & Freehand Mars Design Sketches from the Sketchbook of the Author: 124
Ideas for extending the set of 10 space station lessons: 125
MARSHA POD CONCEPT (CONCEPT FOR HOUSING ON MARS). 125
AI SPACE FACTORY AND ‘MARSHA’ (MARS HABITAT) 126
The Mars Rover 2020 model 132
More about Marsha (AI Space-Factory): Page 135
About the author: Page 136
From my sketchbook: 3-D printing the MARSHA POD on Mars. The first steps to establish a settlement on the red planet. The sketch shows the floor and the start of the outer skin. The inner surface – is now shown here. See the next illustration to see the inner skin. There is an air pocket between the outer and inner skin allowing passive ventilation around the pod (cooling and heating). Credit: Author —watercolours, pencil, and ink. May 2020.
SKETCH: How SPACEX is planning to deploy the Mars Rover on Mars in 2021. Author
