Mission Library

Brace for Impact
Coordinate Graphing
Grades 6-8

The Mission
31 min

Storyline

Using their knowledge of coordinate grids, students will protect their town's power plant from an incoming asteroid.

An abandoned asteroid mine is en route to your local power plant. If left unaddressed, it will cause mass destruction. The crew will need to determine the best course of action to prevent mass power outages and...

3-Dimensional Science

Science and Engineering Practices

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

  • Construct, analyze, and/or interpret graphical displays of data and/or large data sets to identify linear and nonlinear relationships.

  • Use graphical displays (e.g., maps, charts, graphs, and/or tables) of large data sets to identify temporal and spatial relationships.

Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking

  • Use mathematical representations to describe and/or support scientific conclusions and design solutions.

  • Create algorithms (a series of ordered steps) to solve a problem.

  • Apply mathemtaical concepts and/or processes (e.g., ratio, rate, percent, basic operations, simple algebra) to scientific and engineering questions and problems.

  • Use digital tools and/or mathematical concepts and arguments to test and compare proposed solutions to an engineering design problem.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Construct a scientific explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from sources (including the students' own experiments) and the assumption that theories and laws that describe the natural world operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future.

  • Apply scientific ideas, principles, and/or evidence to construct, revise and/or use and explanation for realworld phenomena, examples, or events.

  • Apply scientific reasoning to show why the data or evidence is adequate for the explanation or conclusion.

Resources
Targeted Standards
Timeline
0:00

Mission Start and Briefing

1:37

Navigation

5:53

Reactor Revenge

11:59

Problem 2 - Falling Fragments

20:34

Decision Time

23:06

End

Skills in Action
CollaborationCommunicationCritical ThinkingData LiteracyDecision-MakingDigital LiteracyInitiativeMetacognitionProblem SolvingResilience