CW ___ Lost on the Moon

LOST ON THE MOON

You are part of a lunar exploration expedition scheduled to return to your main spaceship, which landed on the lighted side of the moon. However, your moon explorer vehicle has mechanical difficulties and you are stranded 200 miles from the main spaceship. Your survival depends on reaching the main ship. You take a careful inventory of your supplies and find the following items available to use

Supply list

Box of matches

Food concentrate

30 feet of nylon rope

Parachute silk

Portable heating unit

Two .45 caliber pistols

One case of dehydrated milk

Two 100 pound tanks of oxygen

Signal flares

Stellar map (of moon’s constellations

Self- inflating life raft

Magnetic compass

Five gallons of water

First aid kit with needles

Solar powered FM receiver, transmitter

CW #25 LOST ON THE MOON

• Your task: 1. INDIVIDUALLY: Rank the 15 items in order

of their importance to your survival and safe return to the main ship.

A RANK OF 1 SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM, THROUGH 15, THE LEAST IMPORTANT

CW #25 Lost on the moon2. Your task:

working in your lab groups, read the handout of moon information.

As a team, discuss your ideas and come up with a revised “group ranking”. Your group must all end up with the same answers

IN COMPLETE SENTENCES, Explain your reasons for your each of your TOP 3 rankings and the BOTTOM 3 rankings on the next blank page of your notebook