Learning Exercise

Exploring the Craters on Mars

This assignment can be used to get students to analyze the surface of Mars.

Course: Earth Science

Material:: Google Mars
Date last modified:: June 28, 2006
Created by:: Jennifer Hoffman
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Google Mars

An interactive map of Mars. see more

Material Type:: Simulation
Author:: Jennifer Hoffman, FUSD

Exercise

Disciplines

Science and Technology / Astronomy

Audience

College General Ed

Technical Notes

You need internet access in a computer lab.

Requirements

Map reading skills
Knowledge of weathering and crater impacts

Topics

Astronomy
Geologic Maps

Type of Task

Individual

Learning Objectives

CA Earth Science standard 1f: Students know the evidence for the dramatic effects that asteroid impacts have had in shaping the surface of planets and their moons and in mass extinctions of life on Earth.

CA Investigation and Experimentation Standard 1f: Read and interpret topographic and geologic maps.