Description
Students will learn from Brian Onate, NASA’s Advanced Plant Habitat project manager, as well as from astronaut Kjell Lindgren. They discuss the various types of experiments done with plants aboard the ISS, and why they are beneficial to current astronauts, future space exploration, and people back on Earth.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Identify two or more different types of experiments that NASA is conducting on plants.
- What are some of the plants they are growing on the ISS?
- How will these experiments help astronauts now but also future space exploration?
- How can these experiments also help people back on Earth?
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Participants
Vocabulary
- Aeroponics
- Hydroponics
- Kevlar
- Tangible