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Explore the criteria for and constraints of transporting items into space, and understand different tests that can help you protect those items during transport.
In this engineering challenge, you will follow the steps below to design a damping device to help protect a camera as it travels into space:
TCI classrooms are active, fun, and immersive spaces where students confidently question and explore the world as scientists do. With our Bring Science Alive! Space program, students model cause and effect relationships involving the Earth’s rotation, revolution, and tilted axis; lunar phases and eclipses, the solar system, galaxies, and the universe. With this program, you get:
Are you ready to Bring Learning Alive! in your classroom? Contact us to access program materials, including student and teacher materials and TCI’s digital platform.