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Students learn about the environmental and physical conditions when living on the moon by means of the Jigsaw method. First, four expertise groups are formed, and every group learns about a different subject: Light & Warmth, Oxygen, Water, and Nutrition. Hereafter students of each group are split and new heterogeneous groups are formed. In these groups students will converse about their subjects and together discuss how they can use their different areas of expertise to solve a common issue.

Students must be engaged in a highly motivating learning experience, which is closely related to the

tasks and challenges of the real world.

Therefore, emphasis must be given on the learning-by-doing, where the activities in authentic

context are strongly emphasized, which means the skills needed in working life, such as being able

to work in teams, working in self-guided manner, and assessing of own actions (Thomas, 2000).

The concept of value is one of the key concepts in social sciences but also one of the most difficult to define and grasp for a student. The scenario aims at providing the student with an experimental example concerning the many elements of a product that contributing in defining its value in a social and economic perspective.

The scenario uses food and food quality as ground for experimentation.