Ciese: Musical Plates: Designing an Earthquake Resistant Structure

Sound engineers investigate the structural design of a musical instrument, the recorder. They work in collaborative groups to choose an instrument to build out of everyday craft materials. It must be able to repeat a three-note sequence...

Amateur seismologists explore Earth's earthquakes in real time using a variety of map styles and parameter selections.

This activity has students access USGS earthquake information to plot the their locations on a world map. Doing this will help students discover for themselves the boundaries of tectonic plates.

Students attempt to design and build the most stable "earthquke resistant" structure. They create model buildings and test them on a shake table to see which design holds up the best.

A instructional activity that looks at how to design a building so that it will withstand an earthquake and not sink or lean over.

In this project, students use Real-time and volcano data from the Internet to explore the relationship between earthquakes, plate tectonics, and volcanos.

Engineers at Stanford University have designed a building that sits on a seismic isolator and is earthquake-resistant. When an actual house was tested on a shake table with a powerful earthquake simulation, the structure itself was...

Society needs to be innovative when it comes to designing homes in areas that may be impacted by natural disasters. One such area is the Gorkha region where a devastating earthquake killed thousands in 2015. Engineers developed a feature...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How buildings can be made safer from earthquakes.

Four part lab activity involves students using real-time data to solve a problem, study the correlation between earthquakes and tectonic plates, and determine whether or not there is a relationship between volcanoes and plate boundaries.