Students work together on their computers to repair the ship.

Students received information about what happened to the Hydroflux Pumps and the water requirements for the pumps. They'll learn that we need to collect at least 16 tanks of transportable water and that that water must be at least 90% freshwater.

Once students read the information, they'll do the following text-based tasks:

• Discuss with your team: why does it matter that we fix the hydroflux pumps ASAP?

• Underline the sentence that tells us what type of water we need to collect.

• Highlight the sentence that tells us how much water we need to collect.

Each team just received a different location to analyze. Teams will need to determine the water distribution of their location based on the provided charts. Then, they'll discuss with students from other teams to synthesize information and determine which location we should go to on the planet based on water distribution. They need to closely observe the water distribution of each location compared to the Hydroflux Pump Requirements they read about earlier in the mission. The grid attached to each location shows how many tanks of water are available at this location. Each square represents 2 tanks-worth of water.

• Hydroflux Pump Requirements: we need 16 tanks of transportable water (at least 90% freshwater)

• Location A: primarily salt water (ocean), 40 tanks of surface water (salt water), 1 tank of ground water (not transportable), half a square of stream water = 1 tank of transportable freshwater

• Location B: water mostly from stream (66%), soil water (17%), and ocean (17%), 2 tanks of soil water (not transportable), 4 squares of surface water (freshwater) = 8 tanks of transportable freshwater

• Location C: water mostly from lake (72%), ground water (14%), and tributary river (14%), 10 squares of surface water, 4 tanks of ground-water (not transportable) = 20 tanks of transportable freshwater

• Location D: water mostly in frozen glacier (82%), 44 "tanks" of glacier/ice water (not transportable), 2 squares of salt water (ocean), 2 squares of surface water from river (transportable) = 4 tanks of transportable freshwater

Once students read the information, they'll do the following text-based tasks:

• Discuss with your team: How much of the water at your location is transportable? How do you know?

• How many tanks of transportable freshwater are at your location?

"How do you know whether water is transportable or not?" "Which locations have enough water? How do you know?"

Students must answer the following question:

Which location has the right distribution of water?

Students collect entities from a grid on their computers using a tractor beam device.

Students work together to steer the ship and navigate their way across a map.