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Students construct an earthquake simulator and create building models to test. In this earthquake lesson, students use the Internet and a slinky to demonstrate P and S waves. They construct an earthquake simulator as a class and use it to test models that they build.

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earthquakes, p waves, s waves, seismology

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earthquakes, p waves, s waves, seismic activity, shock waves, science
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6th - 12th
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Science
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