Mission Library

Do No Harm

CTE: Veterinary Medicine
Grades 4-12

The Mission

28 min

Storyline

Created in collaboration with Colorado State University.

The crew must use their knowledge of equine health in order to help Pepper, the space-famous race horse, who has fallen gravely ill.

Pepper, the space-famous race horse, has fallen ill without an obvious cause. The crew will be shunken down to fit inside of Pepper's bo...

3-Dimensional Science

Phenomenon

A horse is ill.

Science and Engineering Practices

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

  • Make predictions about what would happen if a variable changes.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

  • Analyze and interpret data to make sense of phenomena, using logical reasoning, mathematics, and/or computation.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Construct an explanation of observed relationships (e.g., the distribution of plants in the back yard).

  • Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.

  • Identify the evidence that supports particular points in an explanation.

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

  • Read and comprehend grade appropriate complex texts and/or other reliable media to summarize and obtain scientific and technical ideas and describe how they are supported by evidence.

  • Compare and/or combine across complex texts and/or other reliable media to support the engagement in other scientific and/or engineering practices.

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect

  • Students routinely identify and test causal relationships and use these relationships to explain change. They understand events that occur together with regularity might or might not signify a cause and effect relationship.

Skills in Action

Critical ThinkingCollaborationResilienceProblem SolvingInitiative