Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


HS, Astronomy Std 40: Explain how meteorites reveal information about the history of the solar system.

Lesson Plans: Edible Rocks To observe and describe physical characteristics of edible samples chosen as models of real rocks or meteorites. Impact Craters To determine the factors affecting the appearance of impact craters and ejecta. Crazy Craters In this activity, your students experiment to find out more about what causes the various features of impact craters, including the rim of mountains around the edge, and the streaks or rays that fan out from large craters. What they learn in this activity about our own Moon, Luna, they can later compare and contrast to what they find out about the moons of Jupiter and our own planet Earth. Reaping Rocks To make predictions about the origin of lunar rocks by first collecting, describing, and classifying neighborhood rocks.

Resources: Barringer Meteorite Crater Crater Database The Hubble Law: The Hubble constant H is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it may be used to estimate the size and age of the Universe. The Physics Classroom Tutorials, animations, sample problems Aeronautics Related Activities, Experiments, and Lesson Plans
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