ASC Modules

The modules being developed for Astrobiology in Secondary Classrooms (ASC) allow students and teachers to see the connections among concepts in physics, biology, chemistry, geoscience, astronomy, mathematics, and ethics through hands-on activities. The ASC modules will be a web-based interdisciplinary curriculum in Astrobiology that is free and easily accessible to any secondary instructional program. The curriculum is designed to supplement existing state curricula by providing a framework that draws all areas of science together through engaging activities, providing teachers with activities that meet both state and national standards along with encouraging science literacy.

Module 1:

What is Astrobiology?

Module 2:

Astrobiology and the search
for life in the universe


Module 3:

A changing world in a changing universe

Module 4:

A changing world in a changing universe

Module 4:

How and why do astrobiologists study comets?

Module 6:

Ethics of astrobiology