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1-Component Seismogram: Building Responds to P, S, Surface Waves
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This animation illustrates how seismic waves travel through the earth to a single seismic station. Scale and movement of the seismic station are greatly exaggerated to depict the relative motion recorded by the seismogram as P, S, and surface waves arrive.

Subject:
Earth Science
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
IRIS
Author:
IRIS
Date Added:
02/26/2019
6th Grade Science Teacher Guide
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This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Curriculum
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
AMBER GARVEY
Date Added:
10/12/2022
Activity 1: Crustal Types - Cracking Crustal Questions
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In this lesson, students experiment with representative materials to understand crustal interactions. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to list and draw the three types of plate interactions and name one landform that results from each plate interaction.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Park Service
Date Added:
07/25/2018
Activity 8: Mountain Building - Pushing and Pulling Mountains
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In this lesson, students experiment with how tectonic forces form mountains. Students will recreate each landform made by drawing it on paper or using foam strips to model. After performing the force needed to create different landforms, students will label on paper the direction of the movement of the rock corresponding to each force.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Park Service
Date Added:
07/25/2018
The Big Shakeup
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This interactive resource provides video clips of actual earthquakes to help students better understand the Richter scale and the Mercalli Intensity Scale.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
The University of Illinois Extension
Author:
University of Illinois Extension
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Building an Earthquake-proof Structure
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In this activity, students will understand basic principles of earthquake engineering and design by working together as a team to design and build a structure.

Subject:
Science
STEM
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
STEM-Works
Author:
Irene Salter
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Comparing Two Descriptions of Earth Interior Structure
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Students read two descriptions of Earth's interior structure and summarize similarities and differences between the two and answer a series on analysis questions.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Science
Earth Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
IRIS
Author:
IRIS
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Convection Going Full Circle
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In this lesson, students will explore convection using classroom experiments on Earth and then compare the results with the results of the same experiment in the microgravity environment onbaord the International Space Station.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
European Space Agency
Date Added:
04/20/2018
Cracked plates
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Investigate dynamics in the earth’s crust that explain multiple phenomena.

Subject:
Earth Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
ESRI
Date Added:
04/11/2020
Cracked plates (tectonics)
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In this activity, students investigate dynamics in the earth's crust that explain multiple Earth Science phenomena.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Michigan Virtual
Author:
GRACE Project
Date Added:
11/21/2016