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Rock N' Roll Geology:
Earthquakes!
Earthquakes!
Activity
Long-term data collection activity: This is an easy,
engaging and effective activity that helps students learn
about simple map skills and the distribution of
earthquakes on a global scale, and provides you a
launchpad to teaching plate tectonics and Earth science.
Supplies: computer with Internet access, free
subscription to the USGS Earthquake Notification
Service, colored push pins or small colored stickers, and
a large world map (either placed on a bulletin board,
mounted on foam core, or taped to a wall). By subscribing
to the notification service, you will receive real-time, email
notifications of earthquakes, including the magnitude,
and longitude and latitude.
Procedures:
Links
Earthquakes: booklet from USES
Earthquakes: kids site from USES
Earthquakes: live science
Earthquake Rumble: Sounds of a quake
Long-term data collection activity: This is an easy,
engaging and effective activity that helps students learn
about simple map skills and the distribution of
earthquakes on a global scale, and provides you a
launchpad to teaching plate tectonics and Earth science.
Supplies: computer with Internet access, free
subscription to the USGS Earthquake Notification
Service, colored push pins or small colored stickers, and
a large world map (either placed on a bulletin board,
mounted on foam core, or taped to a wall). By subscribing
to the notification service, you will receive real-time, email
notifications of earthquakes, including the magnitude,
and longitude and latitude.
Procedures:
- Students will receive real-time earthquake
notifications from the USGS (almost daily, if not
several per day), and using longitude and latitude,
plot earthquakes. - Students may use different colored pins to
represent different magnitudes. - After a reasonable period of time (we suggest at
least two months) of plotting earthquakes, ask
students to make observations, look for patterns,
make inferences and pose hypotheses.
Links
Earthquakes: booklet from USES
Earthquakes: kids site from USES
Earthquakes: live science
Earthquake Rumble: Sounds of a quake
Frog Favorite
Activities, Books
and Links about
Earthquakes
Activities, Books
and Links about
Earthquakes