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Lesson Plans - 5th Grade

The Day the Earth Shook

To explore structural engineering through three design challenges.

EARTHQUAKES LESSON

A science lesson on understanding earthquakes. This lesson explains what earthquakes are, earthquakes in history, the Richter scale, and how they are classified. Includes printable teaching reading comprehension lesson worksheets

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.

Exploring Rates of Earthquake Occurrence

The activity allows the students to select their own region of interest and to interrogate the earthquake catalog to obtain quantitative data on the rate of occurrence of earthquakes of various magnitudes within their chosen region

Modeling Intraplate Earthquakes with Booby Trap

Introduce and explore elastic rebound theory as a mechanism for earthquakes