Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Mathematics, Space Science, Calculus, Geometry, Solar System and Planets, Asteroids Comets Meteorites
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
With the eight sets of problems in this section of the Year of the Solar System guide, students apply mathematical principles to solve problems pertaining to impact craters. Using scale drawings, measurements, proportional reasoning, geometry and calculus, students learn about the diameter and volume of craters and the speed and energy of impactors.
Collisions and Craters in the Solar System [2.7MB PDF file]
This document is part of the Year of the Solar System — Real-World Math guide.