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Robotics: Creating a Roving Science Lab — NASA JPL lessonScience · Engineering & Technology · Grades 6–9Lesson plan

In this challenge, students will program a rover to use a color sensor on several rock samples, allowing them to simulate how the Mars Curiosity rover uses it's ChemCam instrument to analyze light emitted from geological samples on Mars. Students will: Understand ratio concepts and use rate reasoning to solve real-world problems. Create an engineered model limited by criteria and constraints and designed to achieve the task of solving a complex problem. Science and Engineering Practices Asking

From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Education · Public domain (US Gov) · original source

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