Goals

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Know how to access and use multiple data portals related to plate tectonics and geohazards learning
• Know a variety of free online activities that can be used with secondary and undergraduate students to analyze the data from the portals.
• Start an implementation plan for using geohazard data portals and activities in their teaching

Program

2022-07 Geohazard portals and activities presentation (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 29.4MB Jul13 22) - including participant brainstorm on addressing student challenges for working with online data portals

1:30 - Welcome, overview, and introductions

1:40 - Overview various data portals and related activities and participant exploration time

Portal: UNAVCO GPS/GNSS Velocity Viewer (note the very helpful video at the top of the page)

• More advanced portal: UNAVCO GPS/GNSS Network Monitoring Map
• Directly related activities
  • UNAVCO: Exploring Tectonic Motions with GPS (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
  • UNAVCO: Visualizing Relationships with Data: Exploring plate boundaries with Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and GPS Data in the Western U.S. & Alaska (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
• Other GPS-oriented resources
  • UNAVCO: Measuring Ground Motion with GPS: How GPS Works (Demonstration) (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
  • GETSI: Measuring the Earth with GPS: Plate Motion and Changing Ice-Water (Intro undergrad)
  • EDDIE: Plate Tectonics: GPS Data, Boundary Zones, and Earthquake Hazards (Intro or Majors undergrad; uses Network Monitoring Map)
  • GETSI: GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes (Majors-level undergrad; uses Network Monitoring Map)
  • YouTube: Measuring Plate Tectonic Motions with GPS

Portal: IRIS Earthquake Browser

• Directly related activities
  • Frequency of Large Earthquakes (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
  • Exploring Rates of Earthquake Occurrence (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
  • Exploring Patterns of Global & Regional Seismicity (Secondary-Intro undergrad)
    • see also "Related Resources tab" > Animations
• Other seismicity-oriented resources
  • IRIS earthquake hazards animations
  • IRIS earthquake hazard & earthquake location lessons

Portal: NOAA Tsunami Events (1850 to Present) Time-Lapse Animation (Secondary-Intro undergrad)

• More advanced portal: NOAA Natural Hazards Viewer (Majors-level undergrad)
• Directly related activities
  • Natural Hazards Education page including Teacher Guide and Student Worksheet (Upper elementary-Middle school)
• Other tsunami-oriented resources
  • Tsunami Early Warning Demonstration (any level)
  • Investigating Factors That Affect Tsunami Inundation (Secondary-Intro undergrad)

Select resources that tie to geohazard mitigation and preparation

• Community Resilience: How can we prepare our communities for earthquakes? (includes set of activities for Secondary-Intro undergrad)
• Measuring the Earth with GPS: Plate Motion and Changing Ice-Water (Intro undergrad) - has societal ties in each unit

3:00 - Break

3:10 - Whole-group discussion of common challenges and strategies for scaffolding students to working successfully with data portals

3:30 - Implementation planning time - how would these resources fit in your teaching situation?
Please take this time to write down some take-away ideas on how you plan to use these resources in your own classes. These questions might be good ones to start from:

1. What course are you think of for these materials
2. What portal(s) and activity(ies)?
   1. Where might they fit in the course? (what might they replace?)
   2. What tips did you learn while exploring today do you want to remember?
3. What ways might you need to adapt the materials to suite your teaching situation and learners?
4. What are three steps you need to take in order to make this happen?

3:50 - Wrap-up and workshop evaluation

4:00 - Adjourn

Resources

Data portals

• UNAVCO GPS/GNSS Velocity Viewer
• IRIS Earthquake Browser
• NOAA Tsunami Events