How  could you take this real-life event and turn this into a game.
You could make it into a game by making the player into a flying object

What genre would you focus on?
I would focus on the action genre.

What skill or topic would your game teach?
It will teach the person how to study for like meteors

What would the player have to do in the game?

the player would have to move thought objects in the sky

What would the hero of your game look like? The enemy?
The hero is going to be a spaceship and the enemy of course will be the flying object.

What type of animations or sounds would the player see and hear?
The player will see the object moving closer and closer to the ground and you will hear the spaceship shooting.

What would be the title of your game?

flying object in the sky