Course: Earthquakes

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- Earthquakes
- Earthquake Data – Student Activity File
  
  Students examine earthquake prone areas and then look at real time data.
- Earthquake Data – Teacher Notes File
- Shaky Science – Student Activity_v2 File
  
  Students discuss scales by which earthquakes are measured and simulate seismic waves.
- Shaky Science – Teacher Notes_v2 File
- Seismic Driven Landslides – Student Activity File
  
  A short activity examining how earthquakes may trigger landslides.
- Earthquake Liquefaction - Student Activity - NEW File
  
  Students learn what liquefaction is and then simulate this phenomenon and its impact on structures using two simple experiments.
- Earthquake Liquefaction - Teacher Notes - NEW File
- Learn more about liquefaction here.
- Earthquake Safety - Student Activity - NEW File
  
  In this activity students discover advice on how to deal with an earthquake sitution, courtesy of Geoscience Australia, and then use this to create their own poster.
- Earthquake Safety - Teacher Notes - NEW File
- Earthquakes – Student Review File
  
  Questions and a wordsleuth to review this topic.
- Earthquakes – Teacher Notes File