OK – so this did not really happen. It’s a PR stunt to mark the
start of science month on the TV channel, Eden. However, the
video does talk about what could happen if a real meteor of this
size hit London, and it would be a lot more devastating than one
crushed taxi. The video talks about the meteor that wiped out
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This could be a nice intro
to a lesson on extinction or to promote a discussion on
theories: are we sure this is what happened? Why? For a physics
lesson you could use the video to look at why such a small-ish
meteor would cause so much damage. The video estimates the
damage that would really be caused by a meteor this size but how
did they work it out? You could discuss why the meteor would
have so much kinetic energy when it hit the ground. A simple
experiment you can do with KS3 and KS4 students is to model the
impact of a meteor on the surface of the Earth using a ball of
modelling clay dropped into a tray of flour. They can choose the
independent variable th