Mission Library

Botspace Boys
Communicating with Light and Sound
Grades 1-2

The Mission
18 min

Storyline

To get RALF to the Intergalactic Music Festival, the crew will create a light device to overcome a communication failure.

RALF has tickets to a music festival on Taipan. Coming out of warp, there is a problem with the communication system. The Infini-D can receive communication, but can't communicate back. RALF will be devastated if he can't see his favorite band, Botspace Boys. Rather than turning back, Will and Anja suggest that the crew come up with a way to communicate RALF parking ticket number to the Air control of Taipan in order to get clearance to land by creating a light device.

3-Dimensional Science

Phenomenon

The normal ship sound communication system isn't working and we need a new communication solution.

Science and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

  • Make observations (firsthand or from media) to construct an evidence-based account for natural phenomena.

  • Generate and/or compare multiple solutions to a problem.

Crosscutting Concepts

Structure and Function

  • Students observe the shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function(s).

Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS4.C: Information Technologies and Instrumentation

  • People use devices to send and receive information.

ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solutions

  • Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people. To design something complicated, one may need to break the problem into parts and attend to each part separately but must then bring the parts together to test the overall plan.

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