Advanced Interplanetary Inquiry

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To be most effective in work and life, we need to learn how to recognize and solve problems and to work in teams. Students work together to reach understanding on a large goal associated with human society and space exploration. An example from a previous class is, 'What will the Moon be like after human settlement?' As a class, uses a weekly inquiry cycle to step toward our goal: read some content, ask a 'natural next question' that takes us one step further toward the goal, seek content to help answer that question and repeat. Each student runs an independent research project using the techniques taught throughout the course. The research project requires some knowledge creation--that is, development of ideas, supported hypotheses, observations and the like, that add to the mass of human knowledge rather than just restating it.