Earthquake Topics — Lessons online

« Back to Topics

Link
Organization	Topics	Content Types	Level
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Visualizations — This collection presents links to images, films, panoramas and animations about the earthquake and fire.
Carleton College/NAGT materials	San Andreas Fault Photos, Earthquake Modeling Lessons online Damage from Earthquakes Tsunamis Societal Effects Historic Earthquakes Geology Engineering, Earthquake Effects, Earthquake Education resources	Lesson Plans Graphics	General Audience College High School
A Comparison of Two Bay Area Earthquakes: 1989 v. 1906 — Investigate the shaking intensity and magnitude of these two earthquakes.
USGS	Effects, Earthquake Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes San Andreas Fault	Graphics Lesson Plans	High School
Continental Drift — investigate the plate motions given various clues to past configurations
DiscoverySchool.com	History-Earthquakes, Seismology Lessons online Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Demonstrations of Geophysical Principles Applicable to the Properties and Processes of the Earth's Interior — demonstrations with photos and graphics
SUNY Binghamton	Education resources Earth structure Basics Lessons online	Lesson Plans Info Graphics	High School College
Designing Structures to Perform Well During an Earthquake — discussion and lesson plans
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)	Lessons online Education resources Engineering, Earthquake Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Info	High School College
Discover Our Earth — Portal for teachers and students for learning the basics about earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, topography, and sea level changes.
USGS & DLESE	Plate tectonics Lessons online Basics	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	High 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	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School Elementary school College
Earth Science Lessons — lessons developed by an elementary school teacher, but good for all ages, slide-style with color diagrams and photographs
Oregon State University	Education resources Earth structure Basics Geology History-Earthquakes, Seismology Lessons online Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School
Earthquake Education Services — lesson plans, information on Wasatch Front
Univ. of Utah	Hazards Education resources Basics Lessons online Preparedness & Response	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Earthquake Practice Quiz — online quiz
Florida Intl. Univ.	Basics Education resources Lessons online	Interactive	Middle School High School
Earthquake Unit — six challenges with lesson plans, online activities, and links to resources about the basics, earthquake probabilities, preparedness, earthquakes in the past, and seismic waves
San Francisco USD	Lessons online Hazards Education resources Basics Preparedness & Response Seismic waves	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	Middle School
Earthquakes & All Shook Up — design and build an earthquake-proof structure
Newton's Apple	Engineering, Earthquake Education resources Lessons online	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Educational Activities — Origami, building models, historical seismologists
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Resources	Basics Education resources Lessons online	Lesson Plans	Middle School
EQ Fear (PDF) — make a list of common fears and address each one
USGS	Education resources Lessons online Preparedness & Response	Lesson Plans	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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
EQ Myths (PDF) — investigate EQ myths; what myths exist and why do people believe them
USGS	Education resources Basics Lessons online Myths	Lesson Plans	Middle School High 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	Lesson Plans	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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Evidence for Plate Tectonics-Teaching Box — Collection of interrelated learning concepts that focuses on finding the evidence for plate tectonics using digital resources, education standards, and comprehensive lesson plans.
DLESE	Lessons online Geology Education resources Plate tectonics Seismicity	Lesson Plans Info Graphics	Middle School
Exploring Earthquakes in Space and Time Through the Internet and GIS — GIS-related earthquake lesson plan
USGS & Rocky Mountain Mapping Center	Seismicity Locations Lessons online GIS Education resources	Lesson Plans	High 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	Lesson Plans	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	Lesson Plans Interactive Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience Elementary school College
Forces of Nature -- Teacher Study Guides — These study guides are mean to complement the giant_screen film "Forces of Nature"
Destination Cinema	Lessons online Hazards Education resources Basics Preparedness & Response Societal Effects	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Getting Ready for the Big One — stigate types of earthquake waves and their effects
DiscoverySchool.com	Education resources Geology Lessons online Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	Middle School
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	Lesson Plans	High School Elementary school College Middle School
How to Build a Model Illustrating Sea-Floor Spreading and Subduction — USGS Open File Report 99-132 (online) This report describes how to build a model of the outer 300 km (180 miles) of the Earth that can be used to develop a better understanding of the principal features of plate tectonics, including sea-floor spreading, the pattern of magnetic stripes frozen into the sea floor, transform faulting, thrust faulting, subduction, and volcanism.
USGS	Plate tectonics Lessons online Education resources Basics	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School General Audience
Human Wave (PDF) — learn about the motions of P & S waves with a fun participating exercise
USGS	Seismic waves Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School Elementary school
Ideas for Activities Using Live Seismograms — ideas for how to use real-time earthquake information in the classroom
USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory	Education resources Lessons online Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	High School College
Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity — excellent graphics, animations and activities
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) & USGS	Education resources Basics Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Lessons online Seismicity	Interactive Graphics Lesson Plans	General Audience College High 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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
John Lahr's Earthquake website — Collection of the author's own activities and publications, and links to other useful tidbits. Especially useful if you have your own seismometer, or want to build one.
USGS Emeritus	Lessons online Instrumentation, seismographs, monitoring Forces Basics	Lesson Plans Info	Middle School High School
Journey to the Center of the Earth — Created by 100 5th grade students
John F. Pattie Elementary	Basics Education resources Lessons online	Graphics Fun & Games Interactive Lesson Plans	Elementary 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	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School Elementary school
Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.
DLESE	Damage from Earthquakes Hazards Effects, Earthquake Education resources Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes Prediction Seismic waves Societal Effects	Graphics Info Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Living in Earthquake Country: A Teaching Box — 7 lessons with the goal of teaching students about how and why earthquakes cause damage. Explores seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.
DLESE	Basics Effects, Earthquake Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Geology Intensity Lessons online Magnitudes Parkfield Seismic waves	Lesson Plans	High School Middle School
Magnitude versus Intensity Lesson (PDF) — classroom lesson to teach the difference between earthquake magnitude and earthquake intensities
USGS	Intensity Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School
Mantle Motions (PDF) — students act out various mantle motions in a game of fast thinking
USGS	Earth structure Education resources Lessons online	Lesson Plans	Elementary school Middle School
MARGINS Education & Outreach Resources — Mini-lessons, powerpoint presentations, research nuggets and more.
MARGINS - Lamont-Doherty	Education resources Lessons online Plate tectonics	Graphics Info Lesson Plans	College
MegaQuakes/Earthquake Simulator — dial up an earthquake and see the results
IRIS	Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc. Education resources Lessons online Magnitudes	Lesson Plans Graphics	High School
Musical Plates — use realtime data to plot earthquakes and solve problems
New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education	Education resources Lessons online Plate tectonics	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
National Tragedy, Global Response Lesson Plan — explore how different people on local, national and international levels respond to a destructive natural disaster and the needs of its victims and how various facets of the media cover such an event, focusing specifically on the earthquake that deva
New York Times Learning Network	Education resources Lessons online Societal Effects	Lesson Plans	Middle School High 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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations — Visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about plate tectonic movements. Visualizations include simple animations, GIS-based animated maps, paleogeographic maps and globes, as well as numerous illustrations and photos.
Carleton College/NAGT materials	Plate tectonics GIS Geology Education resources Crustal deformation Modeling Lessons online	Graphics Lesson Plans	General Audience High School College
Plot that Quake! — lesson plan for using the Internet to plot earthquakes over time
Berkeley	Locations Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School High 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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Remote-Sensing Seismic Activities — you are the planner, and you have to consider the earthquake hazards and risks
Montgomery Cty Public Schools	Education resources Lessons online Societal Effects	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Shake, Rattle, and Slide — Lessons, activities, and slide shows about earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers.
University of Illinois Extension	Basics Earthquake facts Effects, Earthquake Lessons online Plate tectonics	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	Middle School
Shakes & Quakes — Legos and earthquakes
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)	Lessons online Shaking Education resources Engineering, Earthquake	Lesson Plans	Middle School
Soil & Earthquakes — explains liquefaction
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)	Lessons online Education resources Earth structure	Lesson Plans	High School College
Surfing for Earthquakes and Volcanoes — lesson plan using Internet
Berkeley	Seismicity Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle School
TASA Graphic Arts, Inc. — Plate Tectonics and How the Earth Works, The Theory of Plate Tectonics CDROMS, and more you can order
TASA Graphic Arts, Inc.	Education resources Lessons online Plate tectonics	Interactive Lesson Plans	High School College
The Wave that Shook the World — Online companion to the NOVA broadcast with excellent animations, Q&A, images, and lesson plans for teachers.
PBS-NOVA	Books Effects, Earthquake Historic Earthquakes Lessons online Preparedness & Response Tsunamis	Graphics Info Interactive Lesson Plans	College General Audience High School
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	Lesson Plans	Elementary school
Tracking Earthquakes Around the World — plot earthquakes on map using Internet resources
DiscoverySchool.com	Education resources Lessons online Locations	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School
Understanding Tsunamis — learn about tsunamis with a model
DiscoverySchool.com	Tsunamis Lessons online Education resources	Lesson Plans	Middle 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	Lesson Plans Info	Middle School High School Elementary school College
UTIG : GK-12 Program — lesson plans for earthquakes, tsunamis, plate tectonics, and more
Univ. of Texas, Austin	Lessons online Education resources Basics Plate tectonics Tsunamis	Lesson Plans	Middle School High School College
Visualizations of Geologic Hazards — Visualizing the Earth, its processes, and its evolution through time is a fundamental aspect of geoscience. The use of visualizations - diagrams, images, animations, maps, and more - is an essential tool in helping students to visualize the Earth and its processes.
Carleton College/NAGT materials	Lessons online Hazards Effects, Earthquake Education resources Tsunamis Modeling	Lesson Plans Graphics	High School General Audience 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	Lesson Plans Graphics	Middle School High School 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	Lesson Plans Graphics	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	Lesson Plans Graphics Interactive	Middle School Elementary school

« Back to Topics