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Meteoroids and the Craters They Make
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In this activity, learners investigate the formation of craters. Learners will examine how the size, angle and speed of a meteorite's impact affects the properties of craters.

Vanishing Craters
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In this activity (on pages 12-15), learners make a crater model and test the effects of weather (rain) on its surface.

Future Moon: The Footsteps of Explorers
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In this activity, learners drop impactors onto layers of graham crackers!
Crater Maker
In this activity (on pages 6-11), learners work as a team to investigate how impact craters on Earth, the Moon or other planets take shape and what patterns they make.

Kid Moon: Splat!
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In this activity, learners model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons.

Earth and Mars
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Based on color photographic images, learners compare geological features on Earth and Mars to understand similarities and differences between the two planets, and consider the forces that created land