Asteroid, Comet or Meteor

After students have learned the characteristicis of Aseroids, comets and Meteors this activity will help catorgorize and organize the information

Students will be able to explore current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved.

Students will describe the characteristics of comets, asteroids and meteors.

Studens will be able to explore current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved

Students will describe the characteristics of comets, asteroids and meteors

1.  Allow students to pair up

2.  Students will discuss in their pairs the characteristics of a meteor, asteroid and comets

3.  Students will use attached worksheet to organize their information

4.  Students place an X in the appropriate boxes to indicate characteristics of asteroids, comets and meteors.

5.  Students illustrate a meteor, comet and asteroid in the boxes at the bottom of the worksheet.

1.  Asteroid, Comet, or Meteor? worksheet

2.  Colored pens/pencils

3.  Information/notes/textbook on meteors, comets and asteroids.

Assess for accuracy.

Answers:

Frozen ball of gas - comet

Is visable in our sky - comet, asteroid, meteor

Made up of rock - meteor, asteroid

Obits between Jupiter and Mars - asteroid

Usually burns up in the Earth's atmosphere - meteor

Remains of the formation of the solar system - asteroid

Can be bigger than a moon - asteroid

Tail points away from the Sun - comet

Found in all parts of th solar system - comet, asteroid, meteor

Bits and pieces of planet that never formed - asteroid

Possibly caused the extinction of donosaurs - asteroid

Can be located in the tail of a comet - meteor

Called a meterorite when contacts Earth - meteor