Recursos educatius en sismologia oferts per Earthcope

 

Welcome to the January 2024 issue of The EarthScope Newsletter, a monthly newsletter by me, Tammy Bravo, and my colleagues with a focus on high-quality Earth Science teaching resources for grades 6-20 from EarthScope Consortium (formerly IRIS and UNAVCO). This month, I'm co-authoring the newsletter with my colleague Emily Zawacki, a geologist and Science Communication Associate at EarthScope, as we introduce more faces from EarthScope here! Was this email forwarded to you? Get yours: Subscribe here. Dear Educator, Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful holiday with those you love and that 2024 brings you good health and engaged students. Know that EarthScope is always here for you with scientifically accurate teaching resources for Earth science. As we look back on the past year, we wanted to share with you our top three most downloaded educational seismology lessons of 2023. These are all fantastic resources to help your students learn about topics related to earthquakes and plate tectonics, and we hope their popularity is a testament to their effectiveness in the classroom! 🌍 Exploring Patterns of Global & Regional Seismicity Students use our Interactive Earthquake Browser to explore the current seismicity of the planet and learn how earthquakes define different types of plate boundaries. Download Lesson 🔍 Locating an Earthquake with Seismic Data Seismograms are a record of ground motion from an earthquake and can be interpreted to enable us to locate the earthquake's source. In this activity, students learn how to use seismograms to evaluate where an earthquake originated. Download Lesson 🧽 Arguing Cases of Faults & Folds—Sponge Fault Model The faults and folds in rocks provide evidence that the rocks are subjected to compressional, tensional, and/or shear stress. Foam models help students learn how rocks are subjected to these different types of stresses.   Download Lesson If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. We hope that you find these lessons a valuable resource to start out the new year! Best wishes, Tammy Bravo Seismologist, Instructional Designer EarthScope Consortium Emily Zawacki Science Communication Associate EarthScope Consortium PS  If you like the EarthScope Newsletter, below are two ways to support it. Forward it to your colleagues with an invitation to subscribe right here.   Hit reply and tell us which Earth science topics you’d like us to cover. (Or just say “Hi, friend.” That works too!)