{"id":181478,"date":"2023-02-15T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-four-3-2-1-lunch\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:10:29","slug":"activity-four-3-2-1-lunch","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-four-3-2-1-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Activity Four: 3, 2, 1 \u2026 Lunch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students will engage in cooperative game play with other teams to\u00a0simulate\u00a0navigating\u00a0an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone through a city from a given starting point to an ending point\u00a0with\u00a0the shortest flight path\u00a0while avoiding obstacles.\u00a0The team who discovers the shortest distance wins the game.<\/p>\n<p>Students will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use an x\u2013y plane to plot coordinate pairs.<\/li>\n<li>Determine the distance between points on a coordinate plane by counting, using a ruler or applying the Pythagorean\u00a0theorem\u00a0or distance formula.<\/li>\n<li>Engage in computational thinking while exploring\u00a0the challenges NASA engineers face while programming\u00a0unmanned aircraft systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Common Core State Standards: 6.NS.C.6, 6.NS.C.6.B, \u00ad\u00adC, 8.G.B.8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/uas-activity-four-321-lunch.pdf?emrc=ba68bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activity Four: 3, 2, 1 \u2026 Lunch!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lesson plan is part of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/unmanned-aircraft-systems-educator-guide\/\">Unmanned Aircraft Systems Educator Guide<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will combine graphing, problem-solving, creativity and math skills to simulate navigating a drone from a given starting point to an ending point with the shortest flight path while avoiding obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":192767,"template":"","categories":[],"stem-terms":[8043,8048,8133,8125,8044,8051,8060,8082,8126,8083,8129,8165,8046,8093,8045],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[11405],"coauthors":[3854],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebPage","headline":"Activity Four: 3, 2, 1 \u2026 Lunch!","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-four-3-2-1-lunch\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-four-3-2-1-lunch\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/stereo-1.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/stereo-1.jpg"},"articleSection":"General","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA"}],"creator":["NASA"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2023-02-15T21:32:03Z","datePublished":"2023-02-15T21:32:03Z","dateModified":"2023-05-22T17:10:29Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"Activity Four: 3, 2, 1 \u2026 Lunch!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/activity-four-3-2-1-lunch\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"index\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/stereo-1.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2023-02-15T21:32:03Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"General\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":1,"featured_image":{"id":192767,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/stereo-1.jpg","title":"STEReO Field Testing","alt":"Drone being flown by person in yellow vest and hard hat.","caption":"A FreeFly Systems Alta X drone is seen in flight under the control of Jonas Jonsson, pilot in command for STEReO, the Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations project, at NASA's Ames Research Center, as part of STEReO test activities, Wednesday, May 5, 2021 as Cal Fire conducts aerial fire fighting training exercises near Redding, California. 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