Activity best for children age 6 and up

It has been a lot of fun exploring the moon all month long. We have practiced skills real NASA scientists use like making observations, conducting experiments and we even told our own story about a future mission to the moon. Today, you are going to pretend to be an astronaut who has landed on the moon but have run into a problem: you need to refill your breathable air supply! A moonquake has cracked your oxygen tanks, automatic emergency systems have patched them, but they are almost empty. You will need water to produce more oxygen to breathe. Luckily, your outpost has a supply of frozen lunar material mined from deep, dark craters—and it contains frozen water, or ice! In this activity you will be extracting (removing) ice from lunar rocks. Be careful because the ice on the moon is a lot colder than the ice in your freezer, so don’t touch it with your hands!