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For Teachers · Ages KS1–KS4 and home educators

Teaching Meteorites: Lesson Plans and Activities

For Key Stages 1 to 4 and home educators

Corvanelle Publishing

Twenty-five complete lesson plans, from Year 1 to GCSE, that use meteorites, meteors and impacts to teach the National Curriculum for England. Pupils sort materials, hunt model meteorites with magnets, pace out the Solar System, test crater size against drop height, triangulate a fireball, measure density and rusting, and calculate the energy of Chelyabinsk and the push of NASA's DART mission. Every plan gives timings, curriculum statements, resources, safety, differentiation and a worksheet with answers, and five end-of-unit tests come with full mark schemes.

  • 71,500 words
  • About 371 pages
  • 35 chapters
  • Ages KS1–KS4 and home educators
£12.99

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. The science behind the lessons
  3. Safety, specimens and suspected finds
  4. Planning a meteorite unit
  5. Lesson 1. Year 1: Rock, metal or glass?
  6. Lesson 2. Years 1 and 2: Making craters
  7. Lesson 3. Year 2: Meteorites that fell on the United Kingdom
  8. Lesson 4. Year 3: Earth rock or space rock?
  9. Lesson 5. Year 3: The meteorite hunter's magnet
  10. Lesson 6. Year 4: Melting a model comet
  11. Lesson 7. Year 5: The Solar System on the school field
  12. Lesson 8. Year 5: Why meteor showers come back every year
  13. Lesson 9. Year 5: Air resistance and the falling meteorite
  14. Lesson 10. Year 6: The crater investigation
  15. Lesson 11. Year 6: Pinpointing a fireball
  16. Lesson 12. Year 6: What happened to the dinosaurs?
  17. Lesson 13. Key Stage 3: Identifying meteorites by density
  18. Lesson 14. Key Stage 3: Inside a planet
  19. Lesson 15. Key Stage 3: How far away was the fireball?
  20. Lesson 16. Key Stage 3: Weight on other worlds
  21. Lesson 17. Key Stage 3: Saving iron meteorites from rust
  22. Lesson 18. Key Stage 3: Stones from the sky: how scientists changed their minds
  23. Lesson 19. Key Stage 4: The energy of Chelyabinsk
  24. Lesson 20. Key Stage 4: Pushing an asteroid: the DART mission
  25. Lesson 21. Key Stage 4: Half-life and the age of the Solar System
  26. Lesson 22. Key Stage 4: Orbits, resonances and the journey of a meteorite
  27. Lesson 23. Years 6 to 9: A real-meteorite handling session
  28. Lesson 24. Key Stage 3 and 4: Counting a meteor shower
  29. Lesson 25. Key Stage 4: The colours of meteors
  30. Cross-curricular work
  31. End-of-unit tests with mark schemes
  32. Questions pupils ask
  33. Gazetteer of meteorites for the classroom
  34. Reference data and timeline
  35. Glossary