http://www.teachengineering.org/view_lesson.php?url=collection/cub_/lessons/cub_solar/cub_solar_lesson08.xmllessontext/xmlIntegrated Teaching and Learning Program, AstronautInternational Space StationISSmicrogravityshuttlesolar systemspacespace shuttleDockEngineerGalleyMicrogravityModuleShuttleSolar arraySpace walkZero gravity

Students are introduced to the International Space Station (ISS) with information about its structure, operation and key experiments. The ISS itself is an experiment in international cooperation to explore the potential for humans to live in space. The space station features state-of-the-art science and engineering laboratories to conduct research in medicine, materials and fundamental science to benefit people on Earth as well as people who will live in space in the future.

Engineers came up with the idea of an international space station. Led by the US, 16 nations including Russia, Canada, Japan, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil together conduct one of the most ambitious experiments in history. The goal is to determine whether humans can have a real future in space. Engineers from around the world work on designs to recreate the Earth’s atmospheric conditions in space — an engineering feat in itself! Engineers use these conditions to imagine and create new technologies that may only be possible in space.Explain that the primary mission of the ISS is to conduct experimental research on the feasibility of living in space that can also benefit life on Earth.Describe ISS as a cooperative project with more than 16 nations actively participating and as one of the greatest feats of human engineering.Give examples of how living in space is different than living on Earth, and how engineers design technologies to make living in space possible.20TeachEngineering.orgJessica ToddJane EvensonGeoffrey HillJessica ButterfieldMalinda Schaefer ZarskeDenise W. Carlsonhttp://www.shuttlepresskit.com/ISS_OVR/early_assembly.htmhttp://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.htmlhttp://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/issgrc.htmhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.htmlhttp://www.shuttlepresskit.com/ISS_OVR/Kagen, S. Cooperative Learning. San Juan Capistrano, CA: Kagan Cooperative Learning, 1994. (Source for Numbered Heads assessment tool)http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.htmlhttp://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/spacestation/index.htmlhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/benefits/index.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/spacestation/index.htmhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/index.htmlhttp://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast04sep_1.htmS11416ECInternational_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyK. Tools and machines extend human capabilities, such as holding, lifting, carrying, fastening, separating, and computing. 35S11416DAInternational_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyC. Various relationships exist between technology and other fields of study.35S1142599ColoradoSciencea. Gather, analyze, and interpret data about components of the solar system 44S114259BColoradoSciencec. Gather, analyze, and interpret data about the Sunrise and Sunset, and Moon movements and phases 44United StatesCopyright 2012 - Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2011-03-304Teacher