For Elementary School Students
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Organization | Topics | Content Types | Level |
100% Chance of an Earthquake — Earthquake statistics. | |||
USGS | Statistics Prediction Basics | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts — Flash animations illustrating basic earthquake terms and concepts. | |||
USGS | Education resources Basics | College Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School | |
Big Rocks, Little Rocks (PDF) — use cookies to demonstrate erosion and its effects | |||
USGS | Earth structure | ![]() | Elementary school |
Big Squeeze, The (PDF) — use crayon shavings to show how rocks are formed from other rocks, heat, and pressure | |||
USGS | Earth structure | ![]() | Elementary school |
Bigger Faults Make Bigger EQ's — three different rope lengths are used to demonstrate how a fault ruptures in an EQ and why bigger faults make bigger EQ's | |||
USGS | Magnitudes Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() | Elementary school |
Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters — teachers guide to helping children deal with disasters | |||
Univ of Illinois Extension | Preparedness & Response | ![]() ![]() | General Audience Elementary school |
Coloring Pages to Print — Earthquake-related coloring pages to print out and color | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Cool Earthquake Facts — fascinating earthquake facts | |||
USGS | Basics Earthquake facts | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Determining Danger (PDF) — identify potential hazards in your immediate environment and take action to increase safety | |||
USGS | Hazards Preparedness & Response Societal Effects | ![]() | Elementary school |
Earth Egg (PDF) — use eggs to represent the Earth plates, discussions about remote shearing, plate tectonics, and earth structure | |||
USGS | Earth structure Plate tectonics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Earth Science Course Notes & Graphics — Professor Steve Dutch's excellent online resources for earth sciences with great images for teaching; all the goodies are behind the "Notes" links | |||
Univ. of Wisconsin | Basics Earth structure Education resources Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Geology Plate tectonics Rock mechanics | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
Earth Science Education Activities — a wealth of excellent hands-on activities for teaching about earthquakes, volcanoes, seismic waves, plate tectonics, earth structure, seismic waves, convection, seismometers and more! | |||
Purdue Univ. | Shaking Seismic waves Preparedness & Response Plate tectonics Magnitudes Locations Locating Earthquakes Lessons online Intensity Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Hazards Geology Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Engineering, Earthquake Effects, Earthquake Education resources Earth structure Basics | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
Earth Sciences Lesson Plans — not really earthquakes, but great lesson plans for K-12 | |||
NESEN - Lessons for Earth Systems Education | Basics Geology Tsunamis | ![]() | Elementary school High School Middle School |
Earth's Interior Minerals — how can EQ's tell us what is inside the earth? | |||
USGS | Geology Earth structure | ![]() | Middle School Elementary school |
Earth's Layers, The — slide-show type presentation | |||
Oregon State University | Basics Earth structure Geology | ![]() | Elementary school |
Earthquake ABC: A Child's View of Earthquake Facts and Feelings — by kids for kids, with a special section for parents and teachers | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Earthquake Preparedness: What Every Childcare Provider Should Know — PDF file with tips for younger children | |||
FEMA | Preparedness & Response | ![]() | Elementary school General Audience |
Earthquake Science Explained — A series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle. This USGS General Information Product presents some of the new understanding gained and scientific advances made in the century since the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. | |||
USGS | Basics Effects, Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Hazards Paleoseismology San Andreas Fault Seismic waves Trenching | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school General Audience |
Earthquake Statistics — Frequency of different magnitude earthquakes, number of earthquakes per year, etc. | |||
USGS | Statistics Earthquake facts | ![]() | Elementary school College General Audience High School Middle School |
Earthquakes: The Rolling Earth — slide-show type presentation | |||
Oregon State University | Basics Magnitudes Seismic waves | ![]() | General Audience Middle School Elementary school |
EQ Fear (PDF) — make a list of common fears and address each one | |||
USGS | Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response | ![]() | Elementary school |
EQ Kit Treasure Hunt (PDF) — hide EQ kit items around classroom or school and have a treasure hunt | |||
USGS | Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response | ![]() | Elementary school |
EQ Plan (PDF) — discuss a plan for what to do if there is an EQ; especially good for schools in EQ-prone areas | |||
USGS | Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response | ![]() | Elementary school |
EQs on the Surface (PDF) — use topo maps, seismicity maps, and fault maps to understand the connection between the surface features, locations of EQs and mapped faults | |||
USGS | Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Maps Seismicity | ![]() | Elementary school |
Essentials of Geology Animations — A collection of animations describing concepts of geology | |||
W.W. Norton and Company | Geology Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earth structure Crustal deformation Plate tectonics Seismic waves | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Fault Animations — animations illustrating the three main types of faults | |||
Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Fault Features (PDF) — a pan, dirt and some fabric create a model to demonstrate surface features of faults, use the Wallace Creek trail guide to see real fault features, or take a field trip | |||
USGS | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes Field trips - virtual, real Lessons online | ![]() | Elementary school |
Forces of Nature — companion to the "Forces of Nature" IMAX movie about Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes and Tornadoes; interactive learning plus lesson plans for the classroom | |||
National Geographic | Lessons online Education resources Books Basics | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Garlock Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the Garlock fault | |||
JPL/NASA | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() | High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School |
Geological Processes & Structures — animations of various types | |||
Earth Science Australia | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earth structure | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
Geology Lesson Plans — includes all earth sciences | |||
AskERIC | Basics Geology | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
geologylink — geology in the news, links to resources, virtual field trips, virtual classroom | |||
Houghton Mifflin Company College Division | Basics Field trips - virtual, real Geology | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
GSA Free Teacher Resources — A good resource for educators that includes lesson plans, info on state standards, awards, and reading suggestions | |||
Geological Society of America | Geology Education resources Basics Hazards Lessons online Plate tectonics | ![]() | High School Elementary school College Middle School |
How Plates Move — slide-show type presentation | |||
Oregon State University | Basics Plate tectonics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise | |||
USGS | Seismic waves Lessons online Education resources | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school |
Isoseismal Maps (PDF) — learn the difference between intensity and magnitude and gain experience with contouring on maps | |||
USGS | Intensity Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes | ![]() | Elementary school Middle School |
Journey to the Center of the Earth — Created by 100 5th grade students | |||
John F. Pattie Elementary | Basics Education resources Lessons online | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Jules Verne Voyager and Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. — an interactive map tool that enables students and scientists to better understand the relationships between geophysical and geological processes, structures, and measurements with high-precision GPS data. These are Javascript based tools. | |||
UNAVCO | Seismicity Plate tectonics Maps | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Kid's Earthquake Questions & Answers — kids' questions answered by scientists | |||
Dromore National School, Republic of Ireland & USGS | Basics | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Landers Earthquake Rupture Movie — animation of the rupture on the Landers fault | |||
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() | High School General Audience Elementary school College Middle School |
Large Plate Puzzle (PDF) — cut a large world map into puzzle pieces along plate boundaries, students discuss individually land then for the whole map after the class puts pieces together; simple but powerful, discussion Q/A included | |||
USGS | Plate tectonics Lessons online Education resources | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school |
Life Along the Faultline — lots of resources, information, activities and graphics concerning earthquakes in California | |||
Exploratorium | Basics Historic Earthquakes History-Earthquakes, Seismology | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Listening to Earthquakes — music and earthquakes have something in common! | |||
USGS | Seismic waves | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Mantle Motions (PDF) — students act out various mantle motions in a game of fast thinking | |||
USGS | Earth structure Education resources Lessons online | ![]() | Elementary school Middle School |
NGDC - Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC — Data, images, kids quizzes, and maps from geologic hazards as well as slide shows available for order | |||
National Geophysical Data Center | History-Earthquakes, Seismology Hazards Tsunamis | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
One-page Information Sheets on Earthquake Topics — one-page information sheets about various earthquake topics | |||
Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) | Basics Education resources | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Online Coloring Pages — Interactively color earthquake-related pictures | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Online Wordsearch Puzzles — Interactive wordsearch puzzles with earthquake-related words | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Pangea to Present — slide-show type presentation | |||
Oregon State University | Basics Plate tectonics | ![]() | Elementary school |
PBJ Fault (PDF) — demonstrate the different types of faults with a PBJ sandwich, and then eat it double-decker | |||
USGS | Plate tectonics Lessons online Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources | ![]() | Elementary school |
Photos of Faults and Fault Zone Features — photos | |||
Univ. of Oregon | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Plate Tectonics Activities — Games, quiz | |||
Quia | Basics Plate tectonics | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz | |||
Enchanted Learning | Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Plate Tectonics Quiz — quiz | |||
SchoolScience.co.uk | Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Potato Topo (PDF) — use a potato to make a 3-D 'topo map' and understand how it can be represented on a 1-D map, gain experience of maps and scales | |||
USGS | Maps Lessons online Education resources Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Quake-Catcher Network — A collaborative initiative for developing the world's largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. | |||
Stanford | Education resources Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Locating Earthquakes | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school |
Rock'n on Shakey Ground (4MB PDF) — The basics of earthquake science written especially for the elementary school level. | |||
USGS & Green Frog News | Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Rumble Tumble — an online book with pictures, created by a kid | |||
FEMA | Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek — Interactive, 360 degree panorama of the San Andreas Fault. Aerial photos of the fault taken from a kite. | |||
USGS | Crustal deformation Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Field trips - virtual, real Geology Historic Earthquakes Photos, Earthquake San Andreas Fault | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school General Audience High School Middle School |
San Andreas Fault Fly-Over — virtual fly-over of the San Andreas Fault | |||
JPL/NASA | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. San Andreas Fault | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Schoolyard Geology — Online lesson plans with photos and images. Excellent geologic activities you can do anywhere! Education standards info included. | |||
USGS | Geology Maps Surface features - Faults, Earthquakes | ![]() | Elementary school Middle School |
Science Fair Project Ideas — specific projects with directions and ideas | |||
USGS | Education resources Basics | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school |
Science of Earthquakes, The — links to various webpages with basic earthquake science info | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
The Richter Scale — An interactive demonstration of calculating the magnitude of an earthquake based on amplitude and S and P wave locations | |||
Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Magnitudes Basics | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics — excellent comprehensive overview of plate tectonics with excellent graphics, online USGS general interest publication | |||
USGS | Basics History-Earthquakes, Seismology Plate tectonics | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Today in Earthquake History — what happened today in earthquake history | |||
USGS | History-Earthquakes, Seismology Historic Earthquakes Earthquake facts | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Toilet Paper Geologic Time Scale (PDF) — use toilet paper to understand the enormous extent of geologic time compared to recent time; timeline included | |||
USGS | Time Information Lessons online Education resources Basics | ![]() | Elementary school |
Uncovering the San Andreas Fault (PDF) — Earthquake Trail: What Makes the Geology of Point Reyes National Seashore So Special? | |||
National Park Service | Geology San Andreas Fault Field trips - virtual, real | ![]() | General Audience Elementary school |
USGS and Science Education, The — webpages, links, booklets, maps, fact sheets, classroom lessons, etc. online and to order, mostly free | |||
USGS | Basics Careers Education resources Lessons online | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
USGS General Interest Publications — online and to order on a variety of subjects | |||
USGS | Basics | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
USGS Map Catalog: Earthquakes-Volcanoes-Landslides — Purchase maps based on earthquake, volcano, and landslide hazards | |||
USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Center | Plate tectonics Maps Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Earth structure Seismicity | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Volcano World's Activities for Plate Tectonics — slide-style coverage of the basics | |||
Oregon State University | Basics Education resources Geology Lessons online Plate tectonics | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School Elementary school College |
Wallace Creek Interpretive Trail Guide — Interactive online trail guide to Wallace Creek site on the San Andreas Fault | |||
USGS & Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) | Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. | ![]() ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
What on Earth is Plate Tectonics? — excellent presentation with vivid graphics | |||
USGS & U.S. National Park Service | Plate tectonics Earth structure | ![]() | Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College |
Who Dunit? and the Law of Superposition (PDF) — solve a crime, and then use those same skills to understand the Law of Superposition (older layers of the earth on bottom) with a fun WhoDunit? investigation and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery | |||
USGS | Trenching Paleoseismology Lessons online Geology Education resources Earth structure | ![]() ![]() | Elementary school |
Xpeditions: Earthquakes & Volcanoes — Compare plate tectonic maps with population density maps, and analyze what these maps imply about population and seismic hazards. | |||
National Geographic | Societal Effects Plate tectonics Maps Locations Lessons online | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Middle School Elementary school |