The Bronx DIP II

Resouces from Science Journey 1 – Earthquakes – Copied from my wiki.
 

Earth’s Systems

Four Spheres: Air Land Water Life
Atmosphere Geosphere Hydrosphere Biosphere See it here
This session is about what’s below our feet, especially the shake, rattle & roll of Earthquakes.

Earth’s layers inside and out; Plate Tectonics; Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Volcanoes; Mountain building; Rock Cycle
Human Challenges: Measuring, Recording, Predicting, Disasters, Preparedness, Personal & Emergency Responses, Social Impact
Question: Is there an earthquake in your future?

Web Sites

• US Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov/ Earthquakes for Kids and Dynamic Earth online edition

• BBC Schools Geography Plate Tectonics Section for students (emailable test)

• Exploring Earth McDougal Little Text Book with Visualization and Resources

• South California Earthquake Center http://www.scec.org/resources/movies.html

• American Museum of Natural History ‘Ology’ websites include Earth with animations and interactives good for primary grades and includes nice sections on Rocks, Plate Tectonics with interactive map, Journey to Deep Sea Vents with game

• National Geographic’s Forces of Nature includes sections on Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tornados and Hurricanes, also interactive and interactive animations including Build Your Own Volcano; Trigger an Earthquake; Go from ‘lab’ to case studies – including video of 1906 and 1989 California quakes

• More detailed and excellent animations and small Quicktime videos at PBS Savage Earth website. Topics include Earth’s crust, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis; Sidebars on Ring of Fire, Black Smokers, Predicting EQ, Building for EQ

• Interactive Map with Layers of Data http://baird.si.edu/minsci/tdpmap/viewer.htm

• Advanced [http://oit.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/menu/|Geology Explorer] from North Dakota State University

• Seismology in the classroom[http://www.scienceinschool.org/2006/issue1/earthquakes|Classroom article] and activity idea * Southern California Earthquake Data Center educational resources with lots of detail and investigation activities

• Geology Labs Virtual Earthquake activity lets students calculate seismic readings to determine epicenter and magnitude of 4 different earthquakes. A completion certificate is available. Not as difficult as it sounds! Connects to Virtual Courseware, Check out Welcome to Earthquake for more detail about how seismic waves are used to determine earthquake location and magnitude. There’s also demonstration tutorials of P & S wave lag time and understanding longitude and latitude.

• Geology online labs also has Virtual Dating (detrmining ages) and Virtual River (discharge and flooding)

• Oregon State University’s Volcano World

• Geology.com is another great resource updated frequently with oustanding features for teachers and students

• IRIS: Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology website has educational resources (one-page publications and posters), seismic monitoring data and realtime map, plus you can apply to get a seismograph for your school. http://www.iris.washington.edu/ has one page information sheets and posters;  animations at  http://www.iris.washington.edu/gifs/animations/faults.htm</span>

• PBS Nova’s Birth of the Himalayan Mountains

• Online continent mover – interactive applet to move the continents

• Windows to the Universe from University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) / The Regents of the University of Michigan

• More seismic resources on the web

• Volcano Movies from Hawaiin Volcano Observatory

Especially For Teachers

• Lesson Plans at National Geographic Xpeditions website; View the full index

• Thinkfinity’s NY web site is searchable and aligned directly with NYS standards at http://thinkfinityny.org

• USGS Teacher Page with searchable Lesson Plan database

• Plate Tectonics Teaching with Puzzle from USGSand from Purdue University

• Shaking Spaghetti Webquests 8th Grade and 5th Grade (another adaptation here); Spaghetti tower pictures from camp contest

• Earthquake Shaking – Bulding contest and Shake Table Testing activity; More plans for a Shake Table; Discovery Channel’s [http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/?pID=lesson#|Lesson Plan Library] includes one on building an earthquake generator; Here’s another one (HS) Virtual Courseware, Welcome to Earthquake illustrates how seismic waves are used to determine location and magnitude. SIMPLE shake table directions can be found here.

• One middle school teacher’s [Scott Johnson 5/8 grade) Earth Science lesson plan web site. There are great! (Use some of these activities)

• More ideas for teaching plate tectonics from Geology.com and Discovering Plate Boundary Processes – Excellent! Interactive Tectonic Plate Map; Fossil evidence from Earth Like a Puzzle

• Teacher’s guide for using Virtual Earthquake

• Teacher guide to Earthquake unit lesson plans from Regents of University of California for middle-high school students

• Frank Potter’s Science Gems – links grouped by age/grade level and topic

• DLESE Teaching Boxes http://teachingboxes.org/: Evidence for Plate Tectonics – Essentials of Weather – Feeding Frenzy: Seasonal Upwelling – Global Ups and Downs: Changing Sea Level – Living in Earthquake Country - Mountain Building

Tsunamis and Some Articles from the NY Times

• What causes tsunamis (Geology.com)

• Extreme Science Biggest Wave

• NY Times: Thousands Die as Quake-Spawned Waves Crash Onto Coastlines Across Southern Asia

• Asia’s Deadly Waves Interactive (NY Times); Multimedia presentation Fearing the Sea

• Quakes Defy Seismologists (12/28/04)

• Asian Tsunami Repeat Performance (1/4/2005)

• Deadly, but necessary, Quakes Renew the Planet

• Earth Science Meets Social Science (NYT 3/14/2006)