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Planetary Geology

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Provider: NASA

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Appropriate grades
9–12
Subjects
science (geology)
Provider
NASA

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NASA provides a full-featured teacher's guide (in PDF format) with 223 pages of activities, photos, and lesson plans.

Focus on Units 1,4, and 5 to cover objectives related to the Earth and Environmental Science Curriculum about topographical mapping and landforms. Additionally, exercises one, two, three, ten, and fifteen are particularly relevant.

Unit 1. Introduction to Geologic Processes:

  • Exercise 1. Geologic Events on Earth
  • Exercise 2. Geologic Landforms Seen on Aerial Photos
  • exercise 3. Geologic Landforms Seen on Stereoscopic Photos

Unit 4. Introduction to Planetary Surfaces:

  • Exercise 10. Landform Mapping: The Terrestrial Planets

Unit 5. Introduction to Planetary Geologic Mapping:

  • Exercise 15. Introductory to Photogeologic Mapping.