How Many and What Location did M5.0 or Larger earthquakes Occur During a Four-Day Period? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Michael Hernandez, Weber State University
Every week, numerous potentially damaging earthquakes occur around the world. To demonstrate the frequency geography of these earthquakes, you will use U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY's Earthquake Tracker, an online ...

Earthquake Hazards Around You part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Kelli Wakefield, Mesa Community College
Students chose a room where they spend a significant amount of time. Next, they assess the room for earthquake hazards, create a map depicting where these hazards are located, and finally, describe what would ...

Earthquake Hazards: The next big one? part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
In this activity, students explore of the concept of probability and the distribution of earthquake sizes, and then work to understand how earthquake hazards are described by probabilities. Students then work in ...

Visualizing Global Earthquakes – Where and Why do Earthquakes Occur? part of Visualization:Examples
Cara Harwood, University of California-Davis
In this activity students visualize the distribution and magnitude of earthquakes at and below the surface of Earth and how their distribution is related to plate boundaries. Earthquakes are visualized on a 3D ...

Global Earthquakes: Teaching about Earthquakes with Data and 3D Visualizations part of Visualization:Examples
Cara Harwood, University of California-Davis
In this series of visualizations and accompanying activities, students visualize the distribution and magnitude of earthquakes and explore their distribution at plate boundaries. Earthquakes are visualized on a 3D ...

Earthquake Case Studies: Scientific Details and Societal Impacts part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching Environmental Justice: Interdisciplinary Approaches:Activities
Matthew Nyman, Oregon State University
Learning outcomes for this activity include learning earthquake basics. The larger context of the inequity of earthquake impacts provides a social/environmental justice lens that encourages students to examine earthquake hazards with a broader perspective.

Unit 2.5: Applying what we've learned: How can a volcanic eruption or earthquake shake the whole world? part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Physical Science
Sandra Penny, Russell Sage College
We're over halfway through Unit 2 and the students are now equipped with a more solid understanding of energy types and transformations, waves, power, and the fact that waves move energy from one place to ...

Unit 2.1: Recognizing plate boundaries part of TIDeS:TIDeS Teaching Materials:Earth Science
Karen Viskupic, Boise State University, based on Sawyer et al. (2005)
Students work individually to make observations about the distribution of earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, and the age of the sea floor from four maps, then work in small groups to synthesize their observations ...

Transform Boundary Investigation part of Teaching Activities
Jacqueline Reber, Iowa State University
Students will conduct experiments (or watch videos of the experiment in the online version) to measure interseismic intervals and offset during slip on simple block models. They will compare their findings with ...

Did You Feel It? part of EarthScope ANGLE:Educational Materials:Activities
Jennifer Pickering
Did you have an earthquake where you live and want to participate in Community Science? Would you like students to better understand how earthquake intensity is determined? This guide provides ideas about how you can incorporate the online USGS tool: Did You Feel It? into your classroom.