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Adventure Engineering Challenge: Asteroid Impact
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Through this earth science curricular unit composed of eight activities, student teams are presented with the scenario that an asteroid will impact the Earth. In response, their challenge is to design the location and size of underground caverns to shelter the people from an uninhabitable Earth for one year. Through this earth science curricular unit composed of eight activities, student teams are presented with the scenario that an asteroid will impact the Earth. In response, their engineering challenge is to design the location and size of underground caverns to shelter the people from an uninhabitable Earth for one year. Driven by this adventure scenario, student teams 1) explore general and geological maps of their fictional state called Alabraska, 2) determine the area of their classroom to help determine the necessary habitable cavern size, 3) learn about map scales, 4) test rocks, 5) identify important and not-so-important rock properties for building underground caverns, and 6) choose and defend a final location and size for a survival cavern. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Colorado School of Mines |
| Subject Keyword | Earth and Space Shelter Adventure Engineering Survival Asteroid Disaster Planning Earth-bound Asteroid Collision Asteroid Impact Underground Catastrophe Hypothetical Scenario Impact Asteroid |
| Content Type | Text |
| Education Level | Class VI Class VII Class VIII |
| Resource Type | Syllabus |
| Subject | Structure of the Earth |
