Meteorites for K-12 Classrooms: NASA Meteorite Educational Materials

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Sep 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995metic..30r.537l&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics, vol. 30, no. 5, page 537

Mathematics

Asteroids, Craters, Impact, Education (K-12), Meteorites

Scientific paper

The fall of a new meteorite is an event that catches the interest of the public in matters of science. The threat of a huge impact like last year's comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 gives us all reason to evaluate such potential risks. NASA's meteorite educational materials use our natural interest in rocks from space to present classroom activities on planetary science. The meteorite educational package includes a meteorite sample disk, a teachers's guide and a slide set. The sample disk is a lucite disk containing chips of six different kinds of meteorites (3 chondrites, achondrite, iron, stony-iron). EXPLORING METEORITE MYSTERIES is a teacher's guide with background information and 19 hands-on or heads-on activities for grades 4-12. It was prepared in a partnership of planetary scientists and teachers. The slide set consists of 48 slides with captions to be used with the activities. The materials will be available in Fall 1995. Teachers may obtain a loan of the whole package from NASA Teacher Resource Centers; researchers may borrow them from the JSC meteorite curator. The booklet is available separately from the same sources, and the slide set will be available from NASA CORE. EXPLORING METEORITE MYSTERIES is an interdisciplinary planetary science unit which teaches basic science concepts and techniques together with math, reading, writing and social studies The activities are done in a variety of different teaching styles which emphasize observation, experimentation and critical thinking. The activities are ideal for middle schools where teaming makes interdisciplinary units desireable, but most of the activities can be easily modified for grade levels from upper elementary through high school. Meteorites are a natural subject for interdisciplinary teaching because their study involves all fields of science and offers fascinating historical accounts and possibilities for creative expression. Topics covered in EXPLORING METEORITE MYSTERES are centered around basic questions: Where did they come from? What are they? How did they form? How do they affect people? The unit begins with the story of two boys who observed the fall of the Noblesville meteorite in 1991 and concludes with activities on using space resources, careers, and tabloid science. The NASA meteorite educational materials provide teachers with information, activities and slides to use meteorites to teach the interdisciplinary science of the solar system. It also provides planetary scientists with activities to take to local schools and ideas for sharing their knowledge with their communities.

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