Earth Science

Earth Science
Hands-On Learning Activities and Lesson Plans
http://jclahr.com/science/earth_science/

	Making a seismograph and a geophone, Corvallis, Oregon, October, 2007.
	Educational Seismology Workshop, Anderson Lodge, Yale, Washington, August 21-23, 2007.
	OSU SMILE Teacher Workshop, August, 2007.
	Corvallis Farmers' Market display, July, 2007.
	IRIS AS1 Workshop at the regional NSTA meeting, March, 2007.
	Earthquake Awareness Month, Corvallis, Oregon, April, 2007.
	AS-1 Workshop at California State University, Northridge, January, 2007.
	Visit to IRIS seismic station at Wishkah Valley School on July 27, 2006.
	Earthquake Adventure Afternoon at the Port Townsend, WA, Marine Science Center, July 22 and 23, 2006.
	Portland, Oregon, Classroom Seismology Program, June 26-27, 2006.
	Seismological Society of America Meeting, April, 2006.
	San Francisco Exploratorium seismology demonstrations, April, 2006.
	Seismology and Volcanology Workshop and Math Festival in Costa Rica, 2006.
	IRIS AS1 Workshop at the regional NSTA meeting, November, 2005.
	IRIS Waves Workshop at the regional NSTA meeting in Chicago, November, 2005.
	Rocks, Fossils, Shakes and Quakes Day Camp at Port Townsend, Washington, July 2005.
	Earthquake and volcano workshop in Costa Rica, May 2005.
	Sumatra Magnitude 9 of December 2004.
	Fall, 2004, visits to educators running seismic stations.
	Spring, 2004 visits to educators running seismic stations.
	Technology in Education Workshop, June, 2004.

	Model fault using spaghetti noodles.
	Thumbnail Blog: Tectonic plates move as fast as fingernails grow -- but how fast do they grow? Watch and find out, starting May 14, 2006.
	Table-top seismology demonstration. Could be used for a science fair project or for a classroom demonstration.
	Earthshaking Lab Lesson Plan. Small groups of students explore the principal mechanism of earthquakes, namely "stick-slip."
	Build a mechanical seismometer.
	Build an earthquake-simulating shake table and test your building-design skills.
	Model Illustrating Sea-Floor spreading and Subduction. Instructions for making a working tectonic model from a shoe box.
	Pictures of a few of the other models I've made.
	Paper Model of a Volcano and view QuickTime animations of an eruption.
	Paper Model of a Strike-Slip Fault with QuickTime animations showing some of the hazards of earthquake shaking.
	Other USGS paper models: Link1 and Link2.
	Turn students into a "human wave" that teaches in a memorable way about P and S waves in solids and liquids.
	Make a "standing wave machine" for some fun and to learn a bit more about waves.
	Make an interactive model to explore the Earth's magnetic field.
	Make your own Devil's Postpile.
	Record changes in the Earth's magnetic field with a homemade magnetometer.

	The Earth's Core.
	Links to earth science animations.
	Moment magnitude: Is it a new magnitude scale?
	Information on the use of seismic techniques to locate gunshots.
	Compare actual P-phase travel times with those assuming a constant velocity Earth: evidence for the increase of velocity with depth within the Earth.
	Summary of sources of geology information from the USGS.
	This paper includes examples of the types of events recorded at a volcano.
	Information about earthquakes, magnitudes, Alaskan seismicity, and other topics of earth-shaking interest developed while I worked for the USGS in Fairbanks, Alaska.
	Summary paper on the Seismicity of Continental Alaska.

If you live near Denver, CO, visit the USGS Earth Science Information Center in Lakewood for lots of great publications and maps, some free, and to see the new public display area there.

	If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, you must tour the Hayward Fault.
	Photo tour of the San Andreas Fault.

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