Science Saturdays

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Science Saturdays 1

• Beneath our FeetIs There an Earthquake in Your
  Future?
• Lynne M. BaileyCSD 9 Title IIB STEM Grant
• lbaile04_at_nyit.edu

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Agenda

• Paperwork
• Introduction
• Protocols
• Online learning style test
• Objectives
• Pre-test
• Geology 101

• Activities
• Spaghetti Structures
• Online virtual earthquake
• Exploring resources
• Post-test
• Reflection and classroom application
• Share-out

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Introductions

• Paperwork done?
• How do you learn? http//www.educationplanner.com
  /education_planner/discovering_article.asp?sponsor
  2859articleNameLearning_Styles_Quiz
• Protocols leave no tracks!
• Pre-test
• Expectations?

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Remember This One?

• California news of 1989 quake

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Essential Questions

• Is there an earthquake in your future?
• Can we predict earthquakes? (or Tsunamis?)
• How do earthquakes shape geography?
• How do earthquakes relate to basic earth systems?
  
• How do earthquakes effect populations?
• Others?

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Geology 101

• Can you feel it?
• Plot seismic activities
• Find patterns
• Continental puzzle
• Video (primary)
• More to explore - Earthquakes
• Whats below our feet?

• Other media in the classroom
• Podcast
• Videos
• Current events
• Earthquakes tectonic plates

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Can You Feel It?

• Using maps, plot some seismic events
• http//www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas
  /
• Data easily found on the WWW
• Use recent events or large historic events
• USGS http//earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/
• Historical http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/wo
  rld/historical.php
• IRIS http//www.iris.edu/seismon/
• Can add earthquakes, too

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Recent Earthquakes
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Is There a Pattern?

• See online maps

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Lets Do the Puzzle

• Assemble pre-cut puzzle pieces of tectonic plates

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Plate Tectonics

• http//www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/
  navigation/chapter08.cfm

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Video and More

• Powermedia Plus (Elementary)
• Forces of Nature case study
• PowerPoint presentations from USGS
• Lets look at one
• Video links from USGS
• Podcasts, too from PowerMediaPlus and
  www.Exploratorium.edu Lets listen
• Many websites

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Earthquake

• Earthquake properties
• Location
• Magnitude
• Types
• Waves! Visualization1 and 2
• How are earthquakes connected to plate tectonics?

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Vocabulary

• Earths Structure
• Crust
• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mantle, core
• Plate boundaries
• Convergent, divergent, transform
• Sea-floor spreading
• Subduction zone

• Earthquakes
• Seismic, seismograph, seismometer
• Epicenter, focus
• Fault plane, types of faults (normal, reverse,
  slip-strike)

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Whats Under Our Feet?
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Earths Structure
CNN Interactive
SCIGN Interactive
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Another View
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How Do We Know?

• Seismic Topography

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Basic Seismic Waves

• P S Waves
• Which one travels faster?
• Which one does not travel through fluids?

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Shake Table
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Spaghetti Earthquake

• Materials
• Pair of scissors
• 25 lengths of spaghetti (approximately 3lb box)
• 40 miniature marshmallows (16 oz bag)
• 1 sheet 8.5 x 11 card stock
• 2 feet of 3/4 wide Scotch Masking Tape (1 strip
  about 2 feet long) or use rubber bands

• Rules
• The only materials you will be allowed to use are
  the 25 lengths of spaghetti (which can be cut to
  shorter lengths with the scissors) and the
  marshmallows
• Spaghetti towers will be built and taped to 8.5 x
  11 piece of cardstock (the tape can only be used
  for attaching the tower to the cardstock)
• The tower should be designed to be as tall as can
  be but withstand three earthquakes shocks on the
  shaker tray.
• The team will have thirty minutes to complete
  their tower
• After the thirty minutes, teams will be required
  to stop building and step away from their tower
• Testing will begin at that time.

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Earthquake Test

• Attach cardboard stock with the tower attached to
  it and top of the shaker tray
• Pull the tray to one side and let it snap.
• Repeat the test two times to simulate an
  earthquake and two aftershocks
• Judging
• The height of the tower will be the vertical
  distance from the top of the tower to the
  cardboard building surface, measured after the
  earthquake test.
• If the tower bends over, or comes apart, it will
  be measured at its tallest point. Do not touch
  the tower after it has been tested.
• Each teams score will be computed solely on the
  height of the tower in centimeters. The tallest
  tower that survives the earthquake test wins.

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Some Student Work
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Some Student Work
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Simple Seismometer
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Electronic Desktop Project

• Online Virtual Earthquake
• http//nemo.sciencecourseware.org/VirtualEarthquak
  e/
• Also more for math class Wave Race
• Graphing waves
• Calculating arrival times, distance traveled,
  location at time intervals

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More Video

• PowerMediaPlus EarthScience
• San Andreas fault (12/12)
• Can we predict earthquakes?
• Footage from CBS California news

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Post Test

• Did your score improve?

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Exploring Resources

• Web page at wikipsaces.com
• Technoed.wikispaces.com (may be moved)
• What can you use in your classroom?
• How can you apply this science thread in your
  subject area?

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Reflection and Share -out

• Written reflection or class activity
• or
• Add a comment to the blog
• http//bronxdip.edublogs.org

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Closing

• Questions
• Evaluations
• Check the blog for these and more resources

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Thanks for Coming!

• Lynne M. Bailey
• STEM Trainer
• 917.309.4361
• lbaile04_at_nyit.edu