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The scene lets students explore the International Space Station and gain an insight of what it is like to work and live in space. With explorable modules that make up the living spaces and working laboratories students will be able to see how crews carry out their day-to-day tasks.
# Learning objectives
1: To describe the ISS.{.info}
2: To understand what life onboard the ISS was like.{.info}
3: To understand what it was like to work onboard the ISS.{.info}
# The ISS{.objective .objective1}
Students will investigate the construction of the ISS as well as other aspects, such as dimensions, orbit, build time and purpose. They should observe the general lay out of the ISS and the interconnecting modules. They will be asked to consider why it took so long to build and why it was done in stages.
# Working on the ISS{.objective .objective2}
Students will learn about the ISS’s purpose-built laboratories and the experiments carried out onboard, the purpose of the experiments and their use for future space exploration. They will be encouraged to look for working spaces. They’ll be asked to look at the use of the space available to conduct experiments.
# Living on the ISS{.objective .objective3}
Students will learn about how crew members live on the ISS and use some space for downtime between working shifts. They will also learn about the importance of space being used onboard to life sustaining equipment like a water purifier, waste management and oxygen production. Students will be asked to explore the scene and consider the space available as personal space and does it meet the needs of the crew.
# Teacher Resources
**Download Teacher Notes**
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**Student Quiz Answers Document**
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