Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Hawai'i Space Grant Consortium

Exploring Planets in the Classroom
Hands-on Activities

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Impact Craters Activity Index

• Impact Craters: Teacher pages - and - Student pages
  To determine the factors affecting the appearance of impact craters and ejecta.

• Other sites offering activities and information about impact cratering.
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  Lunar Impact Crater Geology and Structure, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
  Deep Impact: Making Impact Craters! (17-page .pdf file) activity for grades 5-8 from the "Explore!" project, a cooperative project of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA's Office of Space Science, and public libraries. Included are background information, black and white and color images, and student pages.
  Crazy Craters, lesson plan from Thursday's Classroom and GEMS.
  Impact Craters, from NASA's Observatorium Planet Earth series.
  Earth Impact Database, huge data base of images and information assembled by researchers from the Geological Survey of Canada.
  The Torino Scale, official scale for assessing Earth impact hazards due to asteroids and comets. This page is from the Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Lab.

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