Seismology Special Issue: The Earth Scientist (2011) part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
In the Spring of 2011, the IRIS Consortium's EPO program guest edited a special seismology themed issue of The Earth Scientist. The Earth Scientist is the journal of the National Earth Science Teachers ...

Silly Putty 1: Brittle, Ductile, AND Elastic part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
Using Silly Putty™ as an analogy, this activity extends student understanding of the deformation a rock undergoes as a result of stress, plus several factors that contribute to the behavior. 

New Petroleum Ventures part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
A new venture in the petroleum industry is the starting point for a potential oil and gas field. This lesson cover how companies work towards placing bids on license areas (blocks). Regional ...

Seeing IS believing. Rocks are elastic! part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
Through a demonstration lead by the teacher, the discrepant concept of rocks exhibiting elastic behavior is physically illustrated with an easily obtained, inexpensive model.

Seismic Sequences part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
Sedimentary rocks are critical to oil and gas, whose types include source, reservoir, and seal rocks. Thus, we need to understand the sediminatary fill and the stratigraphic sequence within an area of interest. We ...

Assessing Barra part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
Students will discover how scientists in the oil and gas industry risk a prospect. A manager wants to know what we think is the most likely volume of HC we expect, and the chance that this prospect will ...

Reservoir Quality part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
In exploration, we want to know, to the best of our ability, if there will be good quality reservoir rock where we propose to drill. This means two (2) things: (1) reservoir rocks are present, and (2) ...

Exploring Seismic Waves with Slinkys part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
The slinky is an effective tool for the demonstration seismic wave characteristics and wave propagation. Slinkys can be used both individually and in various combinations to demonstration different concepts.

How Hard Does the Ground Shake During a Quake? part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
In this activity, students use a three-component accelerometer (iPhone, laptop or USB) to examine their assumptions about how 'hard

Earthquake Machine 2—Developing Arguments About Earthquake Occurrence part of SERC:External Collection:IRIS Collection
In this activity students use a mechanical fault model to collect empirical data, develop logical arguments about earthquake re-occurrence, and skeptically review other groups arguments.