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Traverse the Terrain
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-8
Explore using coordinate planes to navigate a rover through uncharted territory on Mars. Engage in communication and quality control best practices by mapping obstacles and checking other teams’ instructions for accuracy.
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Grade Levels: 6-8
Duration: 60 minutes
Concepts/Skills: Coordinate planes, data collection
Objectives:
- Collaborate with their team to build a test model of the terrain of Mars with obstacles.
- Map the coordinates of the obstacles of a different team’s model terrain.
- Practice quality control by creating and testing navigation instructions from another team’s coordinates.