Actvity Summary: Students use Google Earth, the Blast From the Past poster, and a replica or photos of the KT Core (Leg 171) to investigate meteorite impact craters and analyze evidence for the K/T boundary impact.
- Standard B: Science as inquiry
- Standard C: Physical science
- Standard D: Life science
- Standard E: Earth and space science
- Standard F: Science and technology
- Cause and effect
- Scale, proportion, quantity
- Energy and matter
- Stability and change
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- ESS1. C The history of the planet Earth
- ESS2.A Earth materials and systems
- ESS2.C The roles of water in Earth’s surface processes
- ESS2. D Weather and climate
- ESS2. E Biogeology
- LS4.C Adaptation
- PS2.A Forces and motion
- PS2.B Types of interactions
- PS4.A Wave properties