People And Space
Students will understand the following:
1. For preservation of food and space-saving storage, astronauts on space missions eat dehydrated foods.
2. Dehydration means “removal of water.”
3. Dehydrated foods can be consumed by mixing the food with saliva from the eater’s mouth or by adding water.
More about this lesson plan:
Materials Needed: Dehydrated foods—for example, dehydrated bananas and figs, dehydrated peanuts, beef jerky, dehydrated instant pudding, Tang or other dehydrated fruit crystals, dehydrated ice cream
• Plastic sandwich bags
• Straws
• Scissors
• Water
Author: Ted Latham
Source: © www.discoveryeducation.com
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