Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Earth Structure: Virtual Journey to Center of the Earth
Find out about the interior structure of the Earth and the role of seismic waves as they move through Earth's layers. The research details both compositional layers as well as mechanical layers.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Living in Earthquake Country
An inquiry unit that teaches learners about the how and why earthquakes cause damage and about life in earthquake country. Students specifically learn about: earthquake damage, where earthquake occur, earthquake patterns, seismic waves,...
California Institute of Technology
Scedc: Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity
Learn about earthquakes and how they are measured. Follow up with some activities that help to enhance your learning.
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Impact Tectonics: Earth's Interior, Gravity, and Magnetism [Pdf]
Topics covered in this slideshow include the Earth's interior, seismic S- and P-waves, the crust and mantle, phase boundaries encountered by seismic waves, the Earth's internal heat, gravity and density, gravitational anomalies, the...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Tomography [Pdf]
Learn how seismic tomography imaging helps scientists understand the formation of the Earth's interior.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior
In this interactive tutorial you will learn about earthquakes and seismic waves. Learn about why and how these form and also discuss the hazards - direct and indirect - posed by earthquakes. You will then learn how our knowledge of...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Exploring the Earth Using Seismology
The paths of some seismic waves and the ground motion that resulted are shown in this poster.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Modeling Earthquake Waves
Middle schoolers model earthquake waves with a slinky toy.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Tomography
Using a technique called seismic tomography, scientists decoded the information contained in seismograms' squiggles to develop this image of an individual slice through the deep Earth.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Sequences
In this exercise, students will interpret one (1) 2D seismic line- Line C. This line is from offshore West Africa. This is as specific that the students need to know to work the exercise. During the review of the solution, it will be...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Seismic Reflection
A complete lesson on seismic reflection. A video, slide presentation, and practice with solutions are included.
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Exploring Sound Waves
This activity explores the behavior of sound waves. Learn how to test how sound travels through different types of rock.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Earthquake on the Playground
In this experiment, students go outside and create a simulation of P and S waves traveling across a 30-meter span. This is repeated using a 30-meter square. They experiment with P and S wave behavior, record results, and use...
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Tulane University: Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
College instructor's notes on seismology includes earthquake origins, seismic waves, risks and damage assessments, and other information about the interior structure of the Earth.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Evidence for Internal Earth Structure and Composition
College-level research information describes how the movement of Earth's interior causes seismic wave activity.
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Earthquake Country
A suite of lessons focusing on all aspects of earthquakes. Inquiry-based exploration of earthquakes includes measuring seismic waves, predicting earthquakes, investigating magnitude and intensity, mapping fault lines, and evaluating...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Looking Into Earth With Gis
Multi-lesson activity where students 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 wave velocities...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Earthquake: Earth's Interior
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look inside the Earth to see what happens as an earthquake propagates through it. Also on the site is a short quiz based on seismic waves.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Us Array Ground Motion Visualizations
The USArray Ground Motion Visualization (GMV) is a video-based IRIS DMS product that illustrates how seismic waves travel away from an earthquake location by depicting the normalized recorded wave amplitudes at each seismometer location...
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Walk Run: Locating an Earthquake Using Triangulation
Roll over the seismic stations to see earthquake epicenters triangulated. Touch buttons to watch movies of seismic waves.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Los Cambios en El Medio Natural Ii
In this unit you can learn about the deformation of rocks, magmatism, plutonism and seismic waves. It has 16 interactive activities.
Curated OER
Michigan Technological Univ.: Seismology & Seismic Waves
Definitions and descriptions of a variety of seismic waves such as s, p, Love, and Rayleigh waves, diagrams, and speeds.
Curated OER
Michigan Technological Univ.: Seismology & Seismic Waves
Definitions and descriptions of a variety of seismic waves such as s, p, Love, and Rayleigh waves, diagrams, and speeds.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
This university consortium provides on-going, current information on seismic activity happening all over the world. Of special interest is the Seismic Monitor. Open this page to a full screen to monitor global earthquake activity in real...
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