Impact!: An Asteroid's Journey to Earth
An Interactive Program for Educators
IMPACT! An Asteroid’s Journey to Earth is an interactive DVD developed for use in middle and high school classrooms that presents current scientific thinking about asteroids, impacts, and impact craters. The content and format were tested with 8th grade students and teachers to create experiences that directly address students’ questions, dispel misconceptions, and engage students in scientific investigation and analysis.
The DVD includes the following suite:
8-minute video
Entitled IMPACT! An Asteroid’s Journey to Earth, this is a continuous, non-interactive program that will play on any standard DVD player and TV monitor.
ImpactChallenge (size 600 MB)
This interactive program invites students to analyze scientific simulations developed to model collisions that might have occurred early in the formation of the solar system. Students can vary parameters such as speed, spin, and angle of impact and then examine and interpret the outcomes.
MuseumVideo (size 1.8 GB)
This program features an interactive version of the 8-minute IMPACT! video. Teachers or students may select from several questions and then view video segments that explore the answers. This program also contains a shorter version of the interactive exercise described above in ImpactChallenge.
Cost: $20 (including shipping within the U.S.)
Make your purchase by September 1, 2008, and receive a $10 discount.
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System Requirements
Display: 1040x786 or higher.
Hard disk space: 8GB (approximately) needed for file copying and extraction if all content is copied.
MacOS (10.4 or above) OR Windows XP
System memory (RAM): 1.5 GB or greater
Apple Quicktime should be installed on your computer; if you need to download a free version of Quicktime software, go to www.apple.com/quicktime
Climate Change: Our Global Experiment
Materials for Educators
In conjunction with the exhibition Climate Change: Our Global Experiment, the Harvard Museum of Natural History has developed a suite of educational materials designed to extend learning from the exhibition to the classroom and help teachers to address various National Science Standards in earth science, physics, chemistry, and science and technology. Although educators are encouraged to schedule a visit with their students, the following materials also stand on their own as effective teaching and learning tools.
An Educator’s Guide for Middle and High School
Designed as a companion to Climate Change: Our Global Experiment, this 40-page educator’s guide provides teachers with an in-depth review of climate change through time, presents the causes and potential consequences of modern climate change, and outlines the choices that face our global community. Each guide also includes a suite of five activities specifically developed to engage students in scientific investigations of climate change, help them evaluate their own impact on climate, and encourage group discussion centered on this critical global issue.
Download the PDF
Exhibit DVD
This DVD includes three video programs featured in the Climate Change exhibition that are also appropriate for classroom use.
CLIMATE CHANGE INTERACTIVE
This interactive program is certain to generate classroom discussion and debate about global warming. Presented by Harvard professor and climate change scientist, Daniel Schrag, this video program challenges its viewers to evaluate human-induced causes of climate change, make choices about how to respond nationally and globally, and then see the likely consequences of their decisions.
MILANKOVICH CYCLES
This short presentation offers computer animations that illustrate the Milankovich Cycles—repetitive changes in the Earth’s orbit over thousands of years that effect global climate.
VANISHING GLACIERS
This video presentation shows examples of glacial melting from various locations around the globe as evidence for human-induced global warming.
These educational materials were developed by the Harvard Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Prices
The following prices include shipping within the U.S.:
Educator’s Guide (spiral bound in color) - $25.00
Exhibit DVD - $20.00
Educator’s Guide and Exhibit DVD Package - $40.00
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