Storyline:

As we plan to travel to space, you and your team of NASA scientists need to consider how to transmit large amounts of information back and forth between outer space and Earth.  

Essential Question:

How might we send and receive information in space using light?

Student Take Aways:

All emitted energy is a form of radiation.

Big Ideas:

Light travels in a straight line but the path changes as it interacts with materials. Light does not need a medium to travel.