I. Lost on the Moon

You are a crew member of a spaceship that has just crashed on the moon. You were originally scheduled to rendezvous with the mother ship located on the lighted surface of the moon, 200 miles away. However, the crash has ruined your ship and destroyed almost all of the equipment on board. Only the 15 items below survived the landing undamaged.

The survival of your crew depends on reaching the mother ship. However, since you can't take everything you must choose the most improtant articles to bring along on the 200 mile trip. Your task is to rank the 15 items in terms of their importance to your survival. Place number 1 by the most important and so on through number 15, the least important. You also need to write the reason why you ranked each item as you did.

Each person should first complete this activity individually. Then in groups of 4-7 persons, you should share your individual solutions. You will need to agree on one group ranking that best satisfies all group members. Of course, everyone in the group may not be completely satisfied but come as close as you can in reaching your decisions. As much a s possible you should avoid using, mathematical averaging, majority votes or flipping a coin.

II. Moon Rescue

You and your crew ewach the mother ship land return to Earth. After de-breifing at the space center, you return home to your family and friends. Write a letter to a good friend tellinghim/her about the crash, your survival efforts and the rescue.

You will want to include in your letter:

1. details of the crash, possible causes, etc
2. your feelings about being stranded on the moon
3. how you survived
4. what items allowed you to survive
5. at least five facts about the moon
6. problems you encountered
7. how you would do things differently in the future
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The following scoring guide will hep you in completing this assignment. Have a friend check your letter for the items listed in the scoring guide. If you have anything left out of your letter, you can go back and improve it.

Scoring Guide:

1. 15 pts ____Written in letter form
2. 15 pts ____ Details of crash are included
3. 15 pts ____Feelings about being stranded have been expressed
4. 10 pts ____An explanation of how you survived was included
5. 10 pts ____You included 5 facts about the moon
6. 10 pts ____ The problems you encountered were stated
7. 15 pts ____ You told ideas of future space flights
8. 10 pts ____ All words were spelled correctly
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