INTEREST BADGE Guide Space Badge No 7. Design and make a model Moon base.

Aim of Badge Materials Needed Aim: to understand our place in space.  Print out of pictures of This Badge has 10 options of which 1 & 2 must be completed, plus any conditions on the Moon. other three.  Blank paper for designing the Moon base or copy of Introduction pages 2 and 3 of the Humans haven’t been to the Moon since the Apollo missions in the adapted activity. 60s and early 70s. NASA plan to return to the Moon with the Artemis  Materials to build the Moon programme. ESA are planning what a Moon base might look like and base, paper, straws, have developed resources called Moon Camp, which include Guide- plasticine etc age-appropriate videos (https://youtu.be/EjOgdBm1dqc). The Moon is a very hostile and dangerous environment for humans. The landscape is completely barren and is covered in very fine dust. Contrary to the Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere to provide protection from meteorites and radiation. There is also no air for the 40 mins astronauts to breathe and astronauts would be exposed to the vacuum of space.

Instructions Activity Type Challenge the Guides to design a safe moon habitat. Show the pictures of the Moon / video from Moon Camp and ask them how the  Unit Moon is different from the Earth. (no atmosphere, dusty, cold….)

Guides can sketch their design then make their Moon shelter from material that would be similar to lunar material, using clay or plasticine for lunar soil. Journey Link

Acknowledgement/Source ESA Moon Camp: https://www.esa.int/Education/Moon_Camp http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/edu/PR37_Moon_shelter.pdf

Attachments/Template needed for activity? ESA_PR37_Moon_shelter_adapted.pdf

Tags (Interest Badge, Space, craft, engineering) Could you live on the Moon?

↑ Full Moon seen from the International Space Station in 2014 by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst. ↑ International Space Station passes Moon.

↑ The Moon. ↑ Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan on the Moon. teach with space - moon shelter | PR37 21 My Moon shelter

How would you design a shelter to protect astronauts from the hazardous Moon environment?

1. Draw your ideal Moon shelter and label the most important features. Describe the protection your shelter provides and list the materials you would need.

materials it protecs from... STUDENT WORKSHEETS

My Moon shelter…

16 teach with space - moon shelter | PR37 Space exploration is extremely difficult. • The environment is very harsh. • The distances are very big, even if the destination is the Moon. • Travelling to space is very expensive. Depending on the final destination, the cost per kilogram can vary from a few thousands of euros to several hundreds of thousands of euros.

2. Would you like to update your initial design? Would you still use the same materials? STUDENT WORKSHEETS

3. Build your own Moon shelter!

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