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International Space Station

Location: Participants are visiting or working on the International
Space Station.
Personalities: Astronauts, of course, but add other types of people
who might end up on the space station, such as:

 A school teacher invited to give science lessons from space

 A wealthy space tourist

 A common man who has won the visit in a lottery

Situations: Being enclosed on a vehicle that travels at thousands of
miles an hour at zero gravity can lead to some pretty odd situations:

 Someone brought sunflower seeds to munch on and they’re floating

everywhere

 A piece of disgusting space garbage is floating outside the window

 Someone sees an ET out the window

 Cabin pressure drops and everyone has to find ways to fix the
problem

 Someone has lost something really big or small (not many places it
could be!)
Preparation: Pick some odd things from your bag of props and
encourage your students to pretend they are items appropriate to the
locale and situation:

 An old TV remote (Communication device)

 A pocket watch (Calibration device)

 A textbook (Handbook for fixing something on the station)

Language Used: Depending on the situation you present, your
students may be able to use:

 Critical language (Who brings a bag of seeds into space anyway?)

 Descriptive language (It’s long and green, it’s got three eyes, it
looks like…)

 Instructional language (Try turning it to the left, you need to open

the lid like this…)

 Questions (Did you look under the control panel? When was the last
time you saw it?)