Extra Ideas
(printable version)

Extra Ideas can be used in many ways:

• As extra activities to consider for the entire class during a Mission;
• As homework or extra credit assignments for student groups or individuals;
• As a way to challenge the accelerated students in your class

If you have additional Taking Off Ideas, please send them to us at agronauts@ncsu.edu and we will add your idea to the appropriate Mission.

Mission 5

• How do astronauts go to the bathroom, bathe and brush their teeth in space? What kinds of foods do they eat a lot of and why?

• What is a clinostat and how does it help scientists research plants in a microgravity environment? Students can make a clinostat out of a bicycle wheel.