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Indiana University

Indiana University Bloomington: Foldable Fault Blocks [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will create three-dimensional (3-D) blocks out of paper to learn about the types of faulting that occur at the Earth's surface and its interior. Students will manipulate three fault blocks to demonstrate a normal...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Looking Into Earth With Gis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Multi-instructional activity activity where learners will work with data from a seismic wave model in a GIS (geographic information system) program. They will examine maps, select data, and produce graphs to explore variations in seismic...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Plate Kinematics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, young scholars will observe and understand the basic kinematics of plate movement, how oceans are formed during continental rifting, and the relationship between plate geometry and tectonic data such as earthquakes,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Writing About Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is a writing assignment focussed on the use of data to support the theory of plate tectonics. It includes a scoresheet that was created for a calibrated peer review assignment. The assignment directs students to determine the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Data Rich Exercise for Discovering Plate Boundary Processes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education describes a classroom exercise based on four world maps containing earthquake, volcano, topographical and seafloor age data. Students participate in this exercise by using a "jigsaw"...
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Exploring Patterns of Global & Regional Seismicity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students use the IRIS Earthquake Browser to investigate well-known examples of some plate boundaries.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Guide to Tsunamis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For any educator preparing a teaching theme/unit on tsunamis, this is the site for you! Links to a myriad of lesson plans, worksheets, interactive sites, teacher resources, and much more are all found on this one site.
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Crayola

Crayola: Birth of Islands (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson plan that incorporates language arts, social studies, science, and art. After studying islands, and how they're formed, students create their own models using clay. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Quick or Slow? I've Got to Know!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Earth changes can happen quickly or slowly. The students will work in teams to stake a claim about these changes and then use texts to find evidence to prove their claims. Included in this lesson are video clips of the class, a list of...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Being P Waves and S Waves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students develop a good understanding of different kinds of seismic waves and their effects.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Discovering Plate Boundaries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help students discover the processes that occur at plate tectonic boundaries. The lesson plan is based on the jigsaw concept, mixing the students to work in different groups...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Tsunami Attack!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about tsunamis, discovering what causes them and what makes them so dangerous. They learn that engineers design detection and warning equipment, as well as structures that that can survive the strong wave forces. In a...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context

For Teachers 5th Standards
For this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Human Wave: Modeling Seismic Waves in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A demo of how can we model seismic waves in the classroom. [8:27]
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lecture and accompanying exercises allow students to define a DHI and how to identify them, describe how seismic data are used to determine reservoir rock and fluid properties, and list the processing and modeling steps used...
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Seismic Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete lesson on seismic reflection. A video, slide presentation, and practice with solutions are included.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Arguing Causes of Faults & Folds Sponge Fault Model

For Students 9th - 10th
Young scholars examine images of faults and folds, then experiment with two models to collect evidence to determine how the structures formed.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies:testing Compression Waves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Here's a project for studying compression waves in different soil types. It uses a homemade wave tank for solids, with a frequency generator, amplifier, and loudspeaker as the vibration source. There are lots of interesting possibilities...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Dynamic Earth, Tsunami

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Use this site to teach your students what a tidal wave or tsunami is from this lesson plan. The discovery activity shows how a tsunami happens.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Science of Tsunamis: Seeking Understanding in the Wake of Tragedy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Conduct a demonstration to learn about how waves function in water. Create a poster that shows the physics of waves, how tsunamis work, the devastation caused by the 2004 tsunami or information about relief efforts for the 2004 tsunami.

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