Space: The moon and its craters (KS3 Activate)

The moon and its craters

ALL describe the structure of the moon and how it has formed
MOST plan an investigation to explore the formation of craters
SOME explain your results and evaluate your method.

Keywords: the moon, craters, gravity & meteorites S: Pick a question. Differentiated.

I: What does the moon’s surface look like and what has caused this?

M: (planning/results sheet for pupils)-
Planning investigation- power point talks through each stage of planning the investigation

Carrying out investigation

P:
Conclusion & Evaluations

Large tray (4 cm deep, flour or sand. Newspaper, different size spherical object, balances, string, metre stick, sieve.