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Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest Game

In this activity, learners play a yes-or-no question guessing game that identifies the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds.

DESCRIPTION

Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds. Players ask yes-or-no questions about their opponents' secret object until they can correctly identify it among all the objects on the game board. The first player to guess correctly wins the game!

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  • two educators playing space guess quest
  • Two learners playing the game look at the board to find the planetary body in question
  • space guess quest game board showing space objects
  • An image of the Cartwheel Galaxy
  • two educators playing space guess quest
  • Two learners playing the game look at the board to find the planetary body in question
  • space guess quest game board showing space objects
  • An image of the Cartwheel Galaxy

DESCRIPTION

Space Guess Quest is a fun game that encourages participants to identify the many types of objects in space, from human-made spacecraft to nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds. Players ask yes-or-no questions about their opponents' secret object until they can correctly identify it among all the objects on the game board. The first player to guess correctly wins the game!

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TRAINING VIDEOS

OBJECTIVES

BIG IDEA

the universe hotss a wide variety of objects, like nebulas, galaxies, stars, worlds, and even human-made spacecraft.

LEARNING GOALS

    • Humans are exploring a wide variety of objects, like nebulas, galaxies, stars, and worlds throughout the universe (and now the universe even includes human-made spacecraft!)
    • Scientists often use visual clues to identify objects in space.
    • Scientists rely on a variety of tools as they explore our universe.

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2019
OWNING INSTITUTION

Lawrence Hall of Science

Children's Creativity Museum

Sciencenter

FUNDING

This material is based on work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award numbers NNX16AC67A and 80NSSC18M0061. 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).

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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