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Lesson Plans - 10th Grade

Ocean Exploration Time Lines

Students sequence events in chronological order. Students demonstrate research skills using the Internet and library sources.

Killer Quake!

To gain experience with the thinking process involved in constructing an earthquake-proof building.

Earthquake Teaching Box

Students learn the importance of studying past earthquakes to predict what might happen in the future.

A Model of Three Faults

Students will observe fault movements on a model of the earth’s surface.

Locating an earthquake with recent seismic data

To understand Plate Tectonic processes on the Earth, and to better understand where future earthquakes are likely to occur, it is important to know how to locate earthquakes as they occur. In this activity students use recent, three-component seismic data to locate a global earthquake.