Teacher's Guide to Earthquake Education
Seismology (SM)
Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS)
16-18
18+
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This Teacher's Guide to Earthquake Education is for teachers who work with students with little or no pre-existing knowledge of Earth sciences. The curriculum consists of pre- and post-assessment activities, six directed inquiry-based science activities describing physical processes related to earthquakes, five interactive activities on earthquake hazards and mitigation strategies, and a codification art/literacy project. Each earthquake hazards lesson includes a Tabletop Exercise, which is a scenario that incorporates the occurrence of a particular type of hazard into a realistic chain of events that a student may experience during an earthquake. All lessons are optimized for scientific content, ease of implementation, appropriateness to the targeted grade levels (middle and high school) and cultural sensitivity.