Exploring Earthquakes, HTML

Seven-part lesson where students examine North American earthquakes, including specific quakes, faults, earthquakes in their own region, plate tectonics, landforms, and volcanoes.  

Exploring Earthquakes, PDF

Seven-part lesson where students examine North American earthquakes, including specific quakes, faults, earthquakes in their own region, plate tectonics, landforms, and volcanoes.  

Exploring Earthquakes, Two-Part Lesson, HTML

Two-part lesson reduced from the seven-part lesson above.  This was included in the 2003 Earth Science Week packet.  

Exploring Earthquakes, Two-Part Lesson, PDF

Two-part lesson reduced from the seven-part lesson above.   This was included in the 2003 Earth Science Week packet.

Earthquakes

Exploring Earthquakes

Lessons where students examine European earthquakes, including the June 2000 earthquake in Iceland, faults, earthquakes in specific regions, plate tectonics, landforms, and volcanoes.  

Population

Exploring Population

Lessons where students examine European population, including age structure, population trends, land use, patterns, landforms, and land use.  

Water Resources

Exploring Water Resources

Lessons where students examine European water resources, including lakes, rivers, oceans, and seas, climate, population, and landforms. 

Minerals and Manufacturing 

Exploring Minerals and Manufacturing

Lessons where students examine European minerals and their relationship to manufacturing, population, and landforms.  COMING SOON.

Climate 

Exploring Climate

Lessons where students examine European climate and its relationship to population, land use, latitude and longitude, oceans, and other features and phenomena.  COMING SOON.

Demography

Exploring World and Central and South American Demography

Explore population, birth rate, life expectancy, literacy, and other demographic data around the world with a GIS, with an emphasis on Central America.  

Plate Tectonics

Exploring World and Central and South American Plate Tectonics

Explore plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes with a GIS, including the 1960 Chile earthquake, with an emphasis on Central and South America.

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Global GIS Curriculum

• Each of the lessons at left is based on one of the series of 7 USGS Global GIS CD-ROMs / 1 DVD ROM covering different areas of the world.

• The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the American Geological Institute (AGI) have partnered to make the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a CD and DVD based world atlas. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global map layers of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a scale of 1:1 million. The GIS, which is run on the included Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView Data Publisher software, is  produced both by region on seven CD-ROM’s and on a single  DVD.

• To order the CDs or DVD, visit the American Geological Institute's web site:

          http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/globalgis/

• For more information on the Global GIS Project visit::

          http://webgis.wr.usgs.gov/globalgis/

          and

• http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/globalgis/description.html

For information on how to use these resources in the curriculum, contact:

Joseph Kerski, Geographer in the USGS Education Program: jjkerski@usgs.gov

(303) 202-4315