Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 12 Building Blocks of Life
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: The team activities in this lesson explore the important materials carbonaceous chondrites brought to Earth. A jumbled letter activity leads students to look at the amino acids found in carbonaceous chondrites as the building blocks of life. Students also experiment with growing yeast in mediums that represent carbonaceous chondrite material.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 13 Solving a Mystery
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: This is a culminating lesson in four parts. It is designed to follow meteorite identification activities. A minimum sequence is Lessons 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 2 Follow the Falling Meteorite
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: In the activities in this lesson students use sound to easily demonstrate basic triangulation techniques. They also triangulate using a meteor's path to predict where meteorites might be found. Extended math applications may be added. Students also develop a treasure hunt map in the final activity.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 3 Searching for Meteorites
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: Water balloons filled with flour and pebbles help students model the distribution of materials after meteorite impacts.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 4 The Meteorite-Asteroid Connection: Orbits in the Inner Solar System
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Asteroids, Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: This lesson allows students to understand how meteorites get from the asteroid belt to Earth and how rare it is for the Earth to be hit by a large asteroid. The students will build an exact scale model of the inner solar system.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 5 Looking at Asteroids
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: This lesson is about the connection between meteorites and asteroids. The activities in this lesson focus on ways to look at asteroids because some scientists think that some meteorites are fragments of asteroids. The lesson centers on remote sensing techniques using light.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 6 Impact Craters-Holes in the Ground
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: This lesson allows students to create impact craters in plaster of Paris or layered dry materials. They perform controlled experiments by varying the velocity or mass of an object and observing and measuring the effects.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 7 Crater Hunters
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: After viewing slides of craters on other planets, the Moon, and Earth, students will locate impact craters on Earth using longitude and latitude and various maps. Students will locate potential sites of impacts, and plan the necessary research to verify their observations.
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 8 Edible Rocks
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: This lesson has been designed as a comfortable introduction to describing meteorites. It helps students become better observers by making a connection between the familiar (candy bars) and the unfamiliar (meteorites).
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries: Lesson 9 Meteorite Sleuths
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Meteors & Meteorites
Short Description: The activities in this lesson focus on observation and examination skills. A Meteorite Sample Disk (or photos) will be at the center of four laboratory stations. Students will use several degrees of magnification to research meteorites in the Meteorite Sample Disk and other materials. Discussing the sequence will help them understand how scientists approach meteorite research and classification.
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