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Other

National Resources Canada: Landslides and Snow Avalanches

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines a landslide, avalanche, and a rockslide and provides examples. Describes the causes and effects of these events.
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Website
Other

Geoscience Australia: Landslides

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information on recent Australian landslides, maps of Australian landslides, landslide risk assessment, a survival guide, and a shore safety pamphlet. Use the toolbar to your left to navigate through the different information on...
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Website
Ready

Ready

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Ready website for an overview of how families and businesses can prepare for emergencies, threats, and disasters by building kits, making plans, and staying informed. Find safety information about biological threats,...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mini Landslide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how different materials (sand, gravel, lava rock) with different water contents on different slopes result in landslides of different severity. They measure the severity by how far the landslide debris extends into model...
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Website
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey:the Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake of March 27, 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964. Links to isoseismal map, earthquake damage photos, and seismogram of the earthquake.
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Website
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Landslide Hazards Program

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the problems associated with landslides, where they occur, and why they occur.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Water Erosion

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Nature, learn about the erosive action of water on the Hawaiian landscape and human efforts to limit it.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Angle of Repose

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students measure the maximum slope at which grains are stable (the angle of repose). They explore how different properties of the sediment influence slope stability and lead to different slope failures (mass movements)....
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Handout
Curated OER

National Park Service: Geological Hazards

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about geohazards such as mudslides, earthquakes, and outburst floods that can be found in National Parks.
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Handout
Other

Oas: Landslide Hazard Assessment

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information on landslide mapping hazards, hazard assessment, determining acceptable risk, and development planning.
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Handout
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Landslide Types and Processes [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The information in this publication provides an introductory primer on understanding basic scientific facts about landslides-the different types of landslides, how they are initiated, and some basic information about how they can begin...
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Handout
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Landslide Danger in the San Francisco Bay Area

For Students 9th - 10th
Download a movie about the 1982 landslides of the San Fransisco Bay Area. Shows many devastating stories, scientific discoveries, and the destruction the landslides caused. [58:27]
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Volcano Landslides and Their Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what a volcano landslide is, how they occur, the effects of these landslides, and case studies.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Natural Hazards Programs: Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to articles about natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, floods, etc.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Case Study: Zhouqu, China Landslide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a 'citizen science' research project where students to apply their knowledge of landslide processes in an investigation of the natural and anthropogenic causes of a real-world landslide catastrophe. Students produce a 'magazine'...
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Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: The Slope of Land in Your Community

For Students 5th - 8th
Students investigate how particle size and shape relate to the maximum slope angle the particles will maintain during a landslide.
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Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Watch Out for Landslides

For Students 5th - 8th
Students investigate how particle size and shape relate to the maximum slope angle the particles will maintain during a landslide.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Land on the Run

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds - from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both...
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Handout
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth: The Restless Planet Earthquakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of liquefaction and landslides which are two of the many effects of earthquakes.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Introduction to Landslides and Mudflows

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about landslides and mudslides.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Earth Science: Erosion and Deposition by Gravity

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies causes and effects of landslides and mudslides and explains how slump and creep occur.
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Website
Other

Vibrationdata: Alaska Earthquake 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
Time, date, and size of the Alaskan 1964 earthquake. Photos of the damage caused by the quake and the tsunami, location of the epicenter, and a description of the landslides.
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Website
Other

Luke W Interface Designs: Geology of Mars

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about six geological processes from Luke W Interface Designs that are happening or have happened on Mars. Ex: aeloian, cratering, landslides, volcanic, and more.
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Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Landslide and How Does It Happen?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about landslides, their causes, the different types, how to prevent them, names of major landslides, and other interesting facts.