The Exploring Space Challenges is a cross-disciplinary program.  Each Challenge meets several National Education Standards in Mathematics, Science, Technology, Geography, and/or Language Arts.  This is just a sampling of the standards that are met by this year’s Challenges.  For further details on the Standards met in each Challenge, please refer to the respective Challenge .pdf guide.

Science:

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
• Understanding about scientific inquiry
• Earth in the solar system
• Understanding about science and technology
• Understanding that science is a human endeavor

Mathematics:

• Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement
• Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements
• Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them
• Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data
• Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others

Technology:

• Students are proficient in the use of technology
• Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity and promote creativity.
• Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications and produce other creative works.
• Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.

Language Arts

• Uses general skills and strategies to acquire new information
• Use of spoken, written language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes
• Uses a wide range of strategies during the writing process appropriately to communicate  with different audiences for a variety of purposes