Exploration: Then and Now -- Survival! Lesson

This lesson will help your students answer the question: What are the most essential items for the survival of settlers and explorers in new worlds? In this lesson, students will -- Analyze and rank items based upon their importance for survival in a particular environment. -- Work as a team to come to a consensus about the importance of certain survival items. -- Compare team rankings to rankings developed by history and astronomy experts. -- Identify and compare human needs in two different exploration environments. -- Compare the differences in survival on Earth and the moon.