Materials and Resources Provided

Student worksheets

Student Worksheet for Step 1: When an Extraterrestrial Object Hits the Earth
Student Worksheet for Step 2: Known Effects of Impact Events
Student Worksheet for Step 4: Describing Satellite Images of Possible Impact Craters
Student Worksheet for Step 6: Questions You Would Ask on a Field Expedition to a Possible Impact Crater

Satellite images of landforms with pseudonyms for student use
(Students may recognize some names and know already whether or not they're impact craters.)

Aorounga (Aor)
Elgygytgyn (Elg)
Haughton (Hgh)
Manicougan (Man)
Mount St. Helens (Msh)
Richat (Rch)
Schooner (Sch)

 

Additional downloadable images

Diagrams of simple and complex impact structures
One Minute After the End of Cretaceous by William K. Hartmann.
Impact Painting by Don Davis
Buckminsterfullerene
Aerial photograph of Barringer Meteor Crater
Iturralde movie
Still images taken from Iturralde movie (3)

Rubric for student learning assessment

 

Unless each student will have access to this activity online, teachers will need transparencies or paper to make student copies of the satellite images. (Please see Step 4.)

A small selection of other images of Aorounga, Elgygytgyn, Haughton, and Manicougan can be found at the Earth Impact Database, Crater Image Archive: http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images.html

Thursday, August 14, 2003