“Lost on the Moon” Individual Worksheet
Instructions:
Your spaceship has just crash-landed on the lighted surface of the moon. You were scheduled to rendezvous with a command ship 200 miles away, also on the lighted side of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all the equipment on board, except for the 12 items listed below.
Your crew’s survival depends on reaching the command ship, so you must choose the most critical items available for the 200-mile trip. Your task is to rank the 12 items according to their importance in allowing your crew to survive the 200-mile journey to the command ship. In the column titled “Your rank,” place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important item, and so on through number 12, the least important.
You have 10 minutes to complete this worksheet.
|Item |Your rank |NASA rank |Difference |
|box of matches |__________ |__________ |__________ |
|food concentrate |__________ |__________ |__________ |
|50 feet of nylon rope |__________ |__________ |__________ |
|parachute silk |__________ |__________ |__________ |
|two .45 caliber pistols |__________ |__________ |__________ |
|solar-powered portable | | | |
|heating unit |__________ |__________ |__________ |...