DESCRIPTION
"Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life" is a hands-on activity in which visitors imagine and draw an extreme environment beyond Earth, then invent a living thing that could thrive in it. They learn that NASA scientists study extremophiles on Earth to imagine the variety of life that might exist elsewhere, and make predictions about where to look for it.
DESCRIPTION
"Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life" is a hands-on activity in which visitors imagine and draw an extreme environment beyond Earth, then invent a living thing that could thrive in it. They learn that NASA scientists study extremophiles on Earth to imagine the variety of life that might exist elsewhere, and make predictions about where to look for it.
TRAINING VIDEOS
OBJECTIVES
BIG IDEA
NASA scientists study extremophiles on Earth to imagine the variety of life that might exist elsewhere, and make predictions about where to look for it.
LEARNING GOALS
If life exists elsewhere in the universe, it could look very different from life on Earth.
Life on Earth comes in an amazing variety of forms.
Astrobiologists use our knowledge about life on Earth to make predictions about what life might be like elsewhere in the universe.
DOWNLOAD FILES
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life activity guide (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life facilitator guide (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life Astrobiology info sheet (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life extremophiles cards (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life drawing sheet (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life Searching for Life info sheet (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life table sign (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life TRAPPIST1 info sheet (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life activity guide (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life facilitator guide (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life extremophiles cards (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life drawing sheet (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life Searching for Life info sheet (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life table sign (Spanish) (PDF)
- Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life TRAPPIST1 info sheet (Spanish) (PDF)
Credits
The Science Museum of Minnesota
This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC67A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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