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Buildings Have Lives, Too: Disasters and Their Effect on People

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research natural disasters and their lasting effect on both people and the environment. In this environmental science lesson, students complete a group project on a natural disaster of their choosing. Students examine multiple...
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The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812: Shaking Our Misconceptions about Earthquakes in United States History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners Examine how earthquakes work and what plate tectonics and fault lines are.  In this earthquake lesson students complete an earthquake scavenger hunt.
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Natural Disasters: An Adventure in Non-Fiction

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study different natural disasters.  In this natural disaster lesson plan students read a nonfiction book followed by a discussion, an experiment,  then collect illustrations from their experience. 
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Modeling Natural Disaster with Mathematical Functions

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the functional relationship of different environmental phenomena. For this math lesson, 9th graders create models of various natural disasters. They use logarithmic and exponential functions to interpret...
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Myths and Legends on Natural Disasters: Making Sense of Our World

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore different natural and manmade disasters through a webquest. For this earth science lesson, students explain their causes. They also discuss how disasters affect society. 
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New Zealand Subduction Zone Model

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore world geography by creating a model in class. In this tectonic plate lesson, students identify diagrams which discuss the tectonic plates in New Zealand and how they affect everyday life. Students utilize cardboard,...
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New Zealand South Island Fault Model

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore world geography by creating a scientific model in class. In this New Zealand lesson, students research the geography and fault lines of the South Island in New Zealand. Students utilize foam board, arts and crafts and a...
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Tsunami

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore tsunami through various hands-on activities. In this earth science lesson, students explain how they are formed. They create tsunami and earthquake models in the lab to observe how they are generated.
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Earthquake Experiments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the effects of earthquakes. In this earth science lesson, students create earthquake models and earthquake-proof buildings. They construct their own seismograph.
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Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research about earthquakes that took place within a certain distance from their place. In this geology instructional activity, students explain why earthquakes occur. They analyze patterns of different earthquakes using a...
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Earthquakes: Learn From the Past, Prepare for the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the destruction caused by earthquakes. In this community safety lesson, students examine the risk involved in living in an earthquake zone and how to prepare for future earthquakes.
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Earthquakes

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students take a closer look at earthquakes. In this earthquake instructional activity, students investigate the causes of Kashmir earthquake and the impact of the earthquake. Students also consider aid efforts in the aftermath of...
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Look for Patterns

For Students 5th - 10th
In this earthquakes activity, students look at maps of earthquake patterns and answer short answer questions. Students answer 12 questions.
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Earthquakes: Getting Ready For The Big One

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars devise a plan to prepare a city for an earthquake. In this lesson on earthquakes, students differentiate between the different types of earthquakes, examine the impact they can have on a city, and write a proposal on how...
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Dynamic Earth

For Teachers K - 5th
Students show how earthquakes affect sea waves. In this tidal waves lesson plan students use a rubber mallet on a table to create waves in a box on top of the table. They experiment with striking the mallet in different locations on the...
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Model of a Normal Fault

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students understand what a normal fault is and why it causes an Earthquake.  In this normal fault lesson, students create a model of a normal fault. 
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Earthquakes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students inspect the causes and effects of earthquakes and examine how seismic waves travel. In this earthquake activity, students determine where earthquakes happen and why, before determining how to build an earthquake resistant...
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Build an Earthquake-Proof Structure

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create straw structures and experiment to see how they would withstand an earthquake.  In this Earthquake lesson, 6th graders use increasing vibrations and record the effects on their straw structures.  Students discuss...
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The Great Wave

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate tsunamis and how they are caused.  In this natural disaster lesson, students discuss earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and other causes of tsunamis.  Students conduct an experiment in which they drop objects into...
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Puzzle of the Plates

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners research tectonic plates and their movement. In this plate lesson, students describe the motion of these plates and the boundaries between them. They look into the San Andreas Fault and explore the earthquakes associated to this...
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GED Vocabulary: Earth and Space Science

For Students 9th - 12th
In this earth and space science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given seven clues and seven terms about earthquakes, the solar system, and convection currents.
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Keep on Standing!!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars construct an earthquake simulator and create building models to test. In this earthquake instructional activity, students use the Internet and a slinky to demonstrate P and S waves. They construct an earthquake simulator...
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Extreme Weather

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students examine different types of extreme weather and how to prepare for them. In this weather instructional activity students explore different types of extreme weather and create disaster preparation posters for different types of...
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Slinky Lab- Simulating the Motion of Earthquake Waves

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders simulate primary and secondary waves. In this earthquakes waves lesson, 6th graders experiment using a slinky to gain understanding of how waves are created during an earthquake. Students record observations in drawings....