Harmony Science Academy Grand Prairie GT 2021



Our Gifted and Talented students  of Harmony Science Academy are excited about the New School Year 2020 - 2021.
Our theme this year is OUT OF THIS WORLD - Telling our stories through the Lens of Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math.

We will create stories about our amazing planet Earth, the moon and beyond

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We are excited about our 2020- 2021 Future City Competition.
​The Theme is Living on the Moon

​Our model City is called Moonopolis

​Our Mentor Electrical Engineer N. Andega (Lockheed Martin)
​ Dreamers of all kinds—including artists, science fiction writers, scientists, and engineers— have imagined a thriving city on the Moon, one with healthy people and a resourceful, sustainable ecosystem.
​Life on the Moon will be quite different from life on Earth. It’s literally another world! Before you begin to design your city, you’ll start your research by learning about the Moon: its features, terrain, available resources, and unique hazards.
The Students’ Challenge: Design a future lunar city and provide examples of how your city uses two Moon resources to keep your residents safe and healthy.
​Lunar Features and Terrain
The Moon is 238,900 miles away from Earth
Is there Oxygen on the moon
Is there gravity on the moon
Is there water on the moon
Is there Sunlight on the moon
How long are days and nights
​What is the temperature and climate
Lunar Resources
Conditions may be challenging on the Moon, but certain abundant resources could make living there sustainable. What other resources does the Moon contain? As you research these resources ask how your future city’s residents might use these lunar resources. ​
  • Sunlight is strong on the Moon as there are no clouds to get in the way.
  • Water as ice in deep craters near the Moon’s poles.
  • Elements -oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, hydrogen,  titanium 
  •  Helium 3 is an isotope that some people think might be a good energy source.
  • Rare Earth Elements (REE) may be used to manufacture many types of electronics. 
  • Geographic Features such as lava tubes or craters might make good building locations. 
Lunar Hazards
Moon dwellers will face serious hazards that we don’t have on Earth. Everything in our city must be engineered to protect people from these hazards.
  • Lunar dust is mostly made of silicon dioxide glass with some particles of iron, calcium, and magnesium, that has been ground into a very fine powder over billions of years of being smashed by meteorites
  • Radiation is energy that travels through space; solar radiation is energy emitted by the sun.  Moon dwellers will have to be protected from solar flares and cosmic rays
  • Meteorites hurtle into the surface of the Moon, Earth, or other planets. It can be as tiny as a grain of dust or it can be a massive rock weighing many tons. The Moon is bombarded by meteorites because it does not have the atmosphere to break them up before they hit the surface
  • Moonquakes are known to rock the Moon. Shallow moonquakes, can register 5.5 on the Richter scale and last for more than 10 minutes. What are the implications of these various moonquakes for a lunar city? 
Moonopolis Dome City Grade 4 Project
Moonopolis II Crater City Grade 5 Project
Learning Experiences and Activities 
Moon information from NASA   
Learning activities from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
U.S. Geological Survey unified geological map of the moon   

​GOOGLE YOUR EARTH
Is it  MARS or bust.....
Space Explorers
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

        Soyuz Connects with the International Space Station ISS
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​ARTEMIS
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Play our
Vocabulary Jeopardy Game.
These are all words that we have used in our lessons so far this  year.
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​Don't forget you must give your answer in the form of a QUESTION and you must SPELL your answer

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