LAIRG ASTEROID INFORMATION BOARD PROJECT

The aim of this project was to work with Lairg Primary School to design 3 information boards, to be sited in the village, that would explain to the community the massive scale and impact of Lairg's unique, newly discovered asteroid strike and why we can't see any evidence of the strike in Lairg today.

The project was solely designed, developed and delivered by myself in partnership with our local community development initiative and funded by Lairg Windfarm Ltd.

I was given lots of scientific advice by Dr Mike Simms of NMNI who worked on the Ch4 programme Walking Through Time episode with Dr Tori Herridge about this earth-shattering event.

Project plan

 - I made a large storyboard with images of asteroid impacts and pre-vegetation landscapes and showed this to the pupils and talked the through the plan to use their words and images on 3 information boards

- we researched together video images of asteroid and meteorite strikes, what Lairg would have been like at the time of the strike 1.2 billion years ago and the massive scale of the impact.

- the pupils then researched and listed lots of asteroid facts and explored the heat, movement and massive scale of the impact in an art session I taught

- I then drew up life-size paper drafts using their words and images as inspiration

- the pupils and Dr Simms then made a few ammendments and I painted the boards

The tv programme about the asteroid strike discovery can be viewed via www.toriherridge.com

The boards are to be permenantly sited in a trail around Lairg village and are to be unveiled as part of the Lairg Asteroid Exhibition in The Ferrycroft Centre May 2017

                 ASTEROID FACTS AND RHYMING SLOGANS

                 MY ASTEROID STORYBOARD

                 CHILDREN'S ARTWORK

                 CHILDREN'S ARTWORK