In collaboration with the Challenger Institute, CASE has worked on resource materials for teachers that relate to space science and the NASA discovery mission, MESSENGER.  Unit 1 of the MESSENGER Education Module, Framing Pathways to Answers: The Scientific Process in Action, is called Staying Cool and covers x and y and z.

Available PDF files:

1.  Introduction to the Unit 1: Staying Cool
Includes: Information on teaching to standards.
2.  Lessons for preK-4
3.  Lessons for grades 5-8
4.  Lessons for grades 9-12

Introduction to the MESSENGER EPO project