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Volcano Tracking
Students study how to track seismic activity of the Montserrat volcano. They create graphs of the data, study the observation logs that accompany the data, and interpret the graphs in relationship to the logs.
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Waves: the Nature of Waves
Each of the slides has some information or a few definitions about the travel of energy through different media. There are references given to obtain further information, which makes this slideshow a great tool for introduction or as a...
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Slinky Lab- Simulating the Motion of Earthquake Waves
Sixth graders simulate primary and secondary waves. In this earthquakes waves instructional activity, 6th graders experiment using a slinky to gain understanding of how waves are created during an earthquake. Students record observations...
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Deep Thoughts
Learners examine what lies within the Earth. They research and create scale models illustrating the layers of the Earth and write skits advocating a travel plan to send a probe into the Earth's mantle.
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All Shook Up
Students calculate the amount of displacement after an earthquake. In this seismic event lesson plan students research the Internet, and fill out a CORS data sheet.
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Seismic Calendar
Students discover how often earthquakes happen in a region of their choice. In this science lesson plan, students use online resouces to help them do their investigations. Students make their own map of their region and show how many...
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Looking into Earth with GIS
Students work with data from a seismic wave model in a freely available GIS (geographic information system) program, ArcVoyager SE. Using a GIS, they examine maps and produce graphs to explore variations in seismic wave velocities at...