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Education Modules

AuSIS have tried to pull together some resources that we hope you will find useful in your classrooms. 

Year

Description

Resource

8-12

AuSIS teaching models book: Includes Online Earthquake Exploration, Magnitudes Demystified, Seismic Waves, Australian Earthquakes, How to view Australian seismometers, Earthquake Location, Building Response, Links to resources (note the Teachers answers and Hints are missing on purpose if you want these please email us)

AuSIS_TM_book.pdf
9-12

Building Response Module: For students to explore what happens to buildings during an earthquake and possible ways to strengthen buildings. Subjects: Earth Science, Physics and Engineering

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 8-12

Seismic Waves: Activities to introduce students to the fundamentals of seismic waves, how they propogate through the earth and how we observe them. Subjects: Earth Science and Physics. 

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 8-12

Virtual Earthquake: A step-by-step guide through earthquake location using Virtual Earthquake with some addition questions for your class

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 8-12

Quake Caster: This module is to explore the reoccurring behavior of earthquakes. The activity uses a QuakeCaster model, which was developed by the USGS 

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 Teachers 

Online Earthquake Exploration: this is documentation for a workshop we held for teachers to explore online resources available to look up earthquake data. It also includes a Plate Tectonics activity. 

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 8-12

Earthquake Location and Magnitude: Paper based earthquake location exercise to locate a real Australian earthquake and calculate it's magnitude. Includes: maps, graphs, tables and follow up questions. (teachers markup sheets included in separate download)

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 8-12

Hazards Mind Map Example: Explore the relationships between geological hazards, earth processes and impacts to society. 

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8-12

Seismology for Senior Secondary: Notes and activities for teachers directly related to units in the Australian senior secondary curriculum in both earth science and physics. Curriculum last accessed Nov 2014. 

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8-12

Magnitude Demystified: Exploring earthquake sizes, magnitude scales and intensity through exercises and activities. 

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Teachers

STAQ 2015 Exploring Earthquakes: Notes for STAQ Senior Secondary conferences. Activities related to finding earthquake information online and creating your own earthquake location activity using real data. 

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