Originally presented 12 Apr 2008
Dallas Abbott has excited E2C participants for many years with her accounts of discovering asteroid and impact craters on the ocean floors, and evidence of huge tsunamis they created. Once again, Dallas will enthrall us with descriptions of her research about these events. This year should be especially interesting because she plans to feature discoveries of an impact in our own Hudson Valley!
Introduction to this Workshop
Here is the introductory power point/pdf.
Cutting-Edge Research
Dallas Abbott has excited E2C participants for many years with her accounts of discovering asteroid and impact craters on the ocean floors, and evidence of huge tsunamis they created. Once again, Dallas will enthrall us with descriptions of her research about these events. This year should be especially interesting because she plans to feature discoveries of an impact in our own Hudson Valley!
Below are links to Dallas’ previous talks. You can find a lot of resources within them.
Classroom Resources
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
Other Resources for This Topic
“Impact Earth” from Purdue University
SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT IMPACT CRATERS
Terrestrial Impact Craters site—Calvin J. Hamilton
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm
Educator’s Guide to Impact Craters
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/edu/craters.htm
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/intro/
Terrestrial Impact Craters, 2nd ed. by Christian Koeberl and Virgil L. Sharpton
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/craters/
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
Asteroid impact craters could cradle life (NewScientist.com, 10 Sep 2004)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6383
SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT TSUNAMIS
US Geological Survey Southeast Asia FAQ
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/neic_slav_faq.html
USGS Tsunami Information Links
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/tsunami.html
Unearthing Proof of a Tsunami in the Northwest
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
University of Washington “Tsunami!
”http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html
USGS Coastal & Marine Geology Program
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/
FEMA Hazards—Tsunamis
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/tsunamis/
NWS Tsunami Awareness Page
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/tsunami.html
SELECTED WEB SITES ABOUT NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC TSUNAMIS
DID A BOLIDE IMPACT CAUSE CATASTROPHIC TSUNAMIS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND?
ABBOTT, Dallas H.1, MATZEN, Andrew1, BRYANT, Edward A.2, and PEKAR, Stephen F.1
(1) Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, dallas@ldeo.columbia.edu, (2) Faculty of Science, Univ of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_65239.htm
New Zealand Hazard Watch
http://www.gns.cri.nz/hazardwatch/latest/index.html
Tsunami Sites in New Zealand
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/newzealand/
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/abouttsunamis.htm
Integrating Educational Technologies
Integrating Educational Technologies into Your Classrooms: Using Digital Cameras to Tell “Science Stories”
Everybody enjoys a well-told story, and Science is full of these. Modern digital cameras–even less expensive versions–enable almost anyone to create movies and images. This month’s theme–impact craters and their tsunamis–provides excellent opportunities for your students and you to construct stories based on science.
Consider, for example, having students complete short stories for which you provide the opening lines, such as:
“The boat trip from the mainland to the vacation island went very smoothly, taking less than fifteen minutes to complete the trip. Our kayaks and camping gear atop the car constantly promised exciting hours ahead. Of course, at that time, we had no awareness of the lethal 2-ton rock hurtling at 50,000 kilometers per hour toward its impact in the ocean only 2,500 kilometers away from our island.
When we landed, we began to …..”
Or you could have your students create poetry about a meteorite impact event. Dawn Sherwood (Highland Springs HS, VA) provides guides to several kinds of poems at http://earth2class.org/er/teachers/links.php.
After your students create their short stories, poems, or other “Science Stories,” they can use digital cameras or other educational technologies (such as videotapes) to create short movies that can be shared with other classes, parents, and others.
Your assignment:
1) What characteristics make student-created stories effective as a classroom teaching tool?
2) When should this technique be used for full-class instruction, and when should they be used for small groups or individual projects?
3) Describe strategies to locate suitable for your classes.
and
4) Design a lesson plan that incorporates at least one .
E2C Follow-up:
You may send your model lesson and other responses to this “assignment” to michael@earth2class.org. If suitable, we will post your work in the E2C lesson plans and/or add them to this section of the Workshop website.