NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Target: Grades 9-12

Length: 10 minutes

Guide: Online, see Internet site

Internet: http://www.cet.edu/products/bioblast/overview.html   ⇒

This 10-minute videotape is designed to introduce viewers to the BioBLAST CD-ROM and its related activities. BioBLAST (Better Learning through Adventure, Simulation and Telecommunications) is a multimedia curriculum supplement for high school biology. Based on NASA's Advanced Life Support research, the program offers students hands-on laboratory investigations, computer simulations and internet-based telecommunication resources to study the interdependent components of a bioregnerative life support system for a futuristic, moon-based research outpost. Student tasks are presented as part of an adventure mission at a virtual lunar research station.

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