Mission Library

Power Struggle
Place Value
4th Grade

The Mission
47 min

Storyline

When a fleet of Sarucian ships is spotted on a lava planet, the crew will apply their knowledge of place values to get to the bottom of it before things heat up too much.

Sarucians have been spotted on Areva, the lava planet. The crew will need to first determine how many Sarucian ships are present on Areva and what they shoul...

3-Dimensional Science

Science and Engineering Practices

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

  • Make observations and/or measurements to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence for an explanation of a phenomenon or test a design solution.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

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

Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

  • Describe, measure, estimate, and/or graph quantities (e.g., area, volume, weight, time) to address scientific and engineering questions and problems.

Resources
Targeted Standards
Timeline
0:00

Mission Start and Briefing

1:53

Docking Port Navigation

8:49

Communicating with signal

10:33

Investigation

16:23

Decision Point

19:10

Fire defenses to disable Sarucian ship

20:35

Investigation

27:55

Decision Point

29:55

Culminating Moment Completion / Tractor Beam Pipes

31:28

End

Skills in Action
CollaborationCommunicationCritical ThinkingData LiteracyDecision-MakingDigital LiteracyInitiativeMetacognitionProblem SolvingResilience