Lesson Plan: “Blast from the Past – Impact Craters”
 [An “Earth2Class Workshops for Teacher” Module]
Created by: Mirtha Landaira, Lawrence Leung, and Linda McCall
E2C Summer Curriculum Development Workshop, Summer 2004

Impact Simulation Model suggested by Dallas Abbott:
        "Earth Impact Effects Program": an easy-to-use, interactive web site for estimating the regional environmental consequences of an impact on Earth http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

 Hawai’i Space Grant College Teacher Page
http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CratersTe.html

http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/CrateringDoc.html

 Impact Cratering on a Rainy Day
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/tlnasa/units/PlanetaryGeology/9.pdf

 Explore Craters
http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/craters.html

 “Crater Crazy” by Andrea Gianopoulos
http://www.astronomy.com/content/static/parentsteachers/activities/cratercrazy.asp

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Of course, the best way to find useful materials for your students is through a DLESE search:   
 www.dlese.org