Mexico can be divided into seven regions: Baja California, the North, the Pacific coast, the central coast, the central highlands, the South, and the Yucatán Peninsula. Except for Baja California, each of these regions is home to at...

Pupil outcome: I can investigate special buildings from around the world and talk about what makes them special. Key learning points: - Human as well as natural features can be special, e.g. the Riverside Museum in Glasgow. - Geographers...

Yucatan, Mexico:"We head to Yucatan, the land where the ancient Mayans flourished to visit its majestic pyramids and discover this ancient civilization."

In ancient times, the ultimate tourist guide was the Seven Wonders of the World, a list of seven sites that were supposedly wonderful to behold. The subsequent centuries weren't kind to those wonders, however, and most of them no...

Discover how the age of dinosaurs, which lasted 165 million years, came to an abrupt end 65 million years ago. Learn about the massive asteroid impact on the Yucatan Peninsula and how the resulting shockwaves, tsunamis, and global...

Dr. Forrester defines the terms comet, asteroid, meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites by classifying them as objects found within space. She also discusses the Chicxulub crater at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the theory...

Hurricane Michael was a late-season storm in 2018 that grew to become the most powerful hurricane on record to hit the central Florida Panhandle. After landfall as a Category 4 storm, it remained a major hurricane, moving into Georgia....

Archeologists have used laser scanning to chart an ancient 100 km-long Mayan highway built 13 centuries ago. <br/>

The enslaved Native woman who acted as the primary interpreter for Hernan Cortés during his conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Where are the impacts on Earth? What is the asteroid belt? Are there collisions in the asteroid belt? How do we find old craters?<br/>
Threatening Asteroids From Space, Part 1