Earthquakes
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For Kids Only Puzzles, Activities, Projects and much more about earthquakes from the US Geological Survey. Become a geophysicist The Science of Seismology http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/ Earthquakes
for Kids is another informative place to start your
exploration of earthquakes. There are even games to play!
http://www.fema.gov/kids/quake.htm |
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From
WNET and PBS Online, The
Savage Earth Online contains articles and animations of what's
involved in an earthquake. Animation
of an earthquake, Animation
of Faults, Building
in an Earthquake, How
a tsunami gets formed, Learning
from Earthquakes, Quake
Prediction http://www.thirteen.org/savageearth/
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Locate
Seismograph
Stations around the world http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gsn/ |
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 Take
an earthquake quiz, study the rotating globe of earthquake locations,
check out the animation about how earthquakes occur and discover the
history of Seismology at this site from UC
Santa Barbara http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/understanding/ |
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The
Great 1906 San
Francisco Earthquake is brought to life at the Virtual Museum
of the City of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html
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Experience life along the faultline from Exploratorium's Faultline http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/index.html |
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What
on Earth is Plate
Tectonics? http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/pltec/pltec1.html
Watch the Plate Tectonic Animations.http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html |
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National Earthquake Information Center "The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to rapidly determine location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public." There is a variety of information on this site. http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov. The Earthquake facts and lists are also very interesting. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php |
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This
is the place to see a real fault., plus many other earthquake photos.
Earthquake
Photos http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/photos.html
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Earthquake
Myths!
Do you know what's true about earthquakes? http://www.scec.org/education/public/allmyths.html |
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TEACHERS
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TheTech:
Earthquakes This is the perfect
place to start for both students and teachers. Topics include: Basics,
Seismographs, Plate Tectonics, Waves, Faults, Waves Seismograms, History,
History, Inside the Earth Safety."This site was created for the
Hypertech online museum as a class project by CMP 194, UCSC's course
in advanced online publishing, taught by Marti Atkinson. It is a production
of EPIC, the Electronic Publishing Instructional Curriculum."
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/quakes/overview/
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Earthquakes
for Grade 5. Loads of information and
classroom activities:
What are Earthquakes? Continental Drift Inside the Earth Measuring Earthquakes Predicting earthquakes, and more. http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/quakes.htm |
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Can
you Predict
Earthquakes? http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/public/eqtoday.shtml |
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This
Dynamic Earth An explanation of Plate Tectonics. http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
Plate Tectonics: The Cause of Earthquakes. http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html Puzzles of the Earth, a Thinkquest Internet Challenge about Plate Tectonics. http://library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/index.html |
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A
tool for you: A Contour
map of the Earth's crust thickness. http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/structure/CrustalStructure/ |
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Earthquake
ABC, A Child's view of earthquakes, with drawings by children,
a parent's guide and a teacher's guide. http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/ABC/index.html
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LESSON
PLANS
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Back to the FACTS or Earthquake VOCABULARY |
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earthquakes,
tsunamis, volcanoes, and other natural hazards.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.shtml 
After
you've studies these hazards take the