Well, hopefully not! But it could happen.
We have discussed the Apollo 13 space mission and all of the problems that mission encountered. But, the hard work and problem solving of mission control along with the astronauts determination, they were able to make it home safely.
With this premise, 2 class periods were chosen to be NASA Mission Control. These classes were given 4 problems with limited resources to try and solve in a limited time. Each mission control wrote procedures for the astronauts to follow.
The other two class periods are the astronauts stuck in space! They are given the procedures to try and follow. However, our astronaut groups had to do a lot of tweaking to the procedures that they found to have lack some specific details to help them solve the problems.
I told each of the groups that this is not just a class grade, this a grade depending on the success of the astronaut groups. Can they execute the procedures in order to make it back safely???
Third period received 4th period's procedures and successfully made it back to earth! Yeah!
Second period received 7th period's procedures and...with just 11 minutes left to spare also completed all of the tasks!
Congratulations to all of the hard work and collaboration for all the classes!!!
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