Curated OER
Zoo Welcomes Baby Animals
Young scholars engage in activities to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. In these animal lessons, students use vocabulary and comprehension skills to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. They also watch...
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Famous Bridges
Students explain how significant bridges are in our lives. In this technology lesson, students research the history and characteristics of their assigned bridge and draw it on butcher block paper. They write a short tour script...
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Life is Weird
Students describe features of cold seep communities and investigate five organisms that live there. In this biological organisms instructional activity students research a given species and give an oral presentation on their...
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Tomography
In this tomography worksheet, students read about how tomography is used to help oceanographers learn more about the Earth's surface below the ocean. Students complete 3 short answer questions based on the reading.
Curated OER
Use of Lasers
Students explore the use of lasers. In this "lasers" science and career education lesson, students search the Internet to find uses for lasers and make a list of companies that use or produce lasers. Students complete a lasers and making...
US National Archives
Nara: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
The National Archives and Records Administration sheds new light on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake through this site's use of primary source documents. A series of handwritten and typed documents are provided that look at the...
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
This article offers moving eyewitness accounts of events and feelings of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Earthquakes Living Lab: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Students examine the effects of geology on earthquake magnitudes and how engineers anticipate and prepare for these effects. They look in-depth at the historical 1906 San Francisco earthquake and compare it to the Kobe, Japan earthquake,...
Other
Csmm: The Military and the San Francisco Earthquake
Provides comprehensive information on the role that the army and navy played in helping San Francisco during the earthquake. Links to many related pages.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
General information about the San Francisco earthquake, as well as some information about how studying that earthquake helped scientists in learning more about when and where earthquakes will occur.
Other
New York Sun: The San Francisco Earthquake
A historical account of the devastating 1906 earthquake which destroyed much of San Francisco.
Other
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
Basic information, images, and maps of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake including numerous links to other sites.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Reports From the Ruins of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
A learning module that begins with "Reports from the Ruins of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
Museum of the City of San Francisco
The Virtual Museum of San Francisco: The 1906 Earthquake
"The Great 1906 Earthquake And Fire" is an extensive site which includes the history of the earthquake and fire, photographs, eyewitness accounts, newspaper stories, information about Charles Richter, and official reports.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: San Francisco Earthquake
The 1906 earthquake in San Fransisco nearly wipes out the city. Read and view footage and information of this catastrophic event.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Loma Prieta, Bay Area, Earthquake 1989
This outstanding multimedia site documents the earthquake and related events that took place on October 17, 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Vmcsf: San Francisco Earthquakes
This resource provides a list of links to information related to earthquake damage and effects in the California area.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: San Francisco Earthquake
This article provides a summary and detailed facts about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, one of the most devasting natural disasters in American history.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of San Francisco: Panama Pacific International Exposition Map
See a map of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. An interesting hyperlink shows a map of the same area and the buildings damaged by the earthquake in San Francisco in 1989.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (Lesson Plan)
A lesson that directs students through an examination of primary documents related to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plan also provides instructions for leading students through a discussion of how personal narratives...
NASA
Nasa: A Century of Quake Research April 2006
This site that presents an in depth look at the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Plate boundaries are identified, effects of this natural disaster are outlined, and a wealth of information is discussed that provides a...
Purdue University
Purdue University: San Francisco Bay Area Earthquakes
Students use geologic fault maps of the San Francisco Bay Area to find relationships between tectonic plate fault lines and landscape features, topographic features, and epicenters of past earthquakes.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Earthquake: The Chinatown Story
Read eyewitness accounts and view a photographic narrative of the devastating fires that broke out in San Francisco Chinatown after the earthquake in 1906.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Tsunami & Earthquake Research
The USGS provides an extensive section of information about tsunamis. The items presented are the basics of tsunamis regarding the Great San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and the 1998...