Let's get Digital studying Eartquakes

Hosted by OSOS , contributed by amichail on 30 July 2020

Based on the Schools Study Earthquakes Accelator students learn about earthquakes (what they are, how they occur, what impact they may have). They use data from the Network of School Seismographs and present them in clear and consise ways. The students then proceed to learn about safety measures and precautions before, during and after an earthquake and create posters and videos for informing the greater school community, using ICT tools. 

Learning Objectives
1.learn about earthquakes 2.understand how knowing and applying precautionary safety measures can save lives in the event of an earthquake 4research,collaborate and present their work using ICT
Teacher: amichail
Age group
12-15
15-18
Students participating
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Teacher Creator: Afroditi Michailidi

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Feel

Brainstorming about earthquakes, if they have ever felt one, if they know of how they occur and what we can do the prevent damages by one.

How many do they think occur per hour in our region, in an earthquake-prone region, what is their magnitude.

 

Padlet can be used for  brainstorming and collection of resources (https://padlet.com/)

Mentimeter can be used for quickly gathering student reactions (https://www.mentimeter.com/)

Imagine

Students study selected resources and see data from real earthquake recordings.

Students in groups discuss ideas of how to spread knowledge to the wider school community about:

- number and magnitude of earthquakes

- formation of earthquakes

-increased awareness of precautionary safety measures we can take before, during and after an earthquake to minimize damage

ΗΜΙΣΚΟΥΜΠΡΙΑ - ΣΕΙΣΜΟΣ, ΦΙΛΑΡΑΚΟ ΜΗ ΣΕ ΠΙΑΝΕΙ ΠΑΝΙΚΟΣ [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Possible Resources:

Schools Study Earthquakes https://portal.opendiscoveryspace.eu/en/community/schools-study-earthquakes-849203

Ο.Α.Σ.Π Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization

European-Mediterranean Seismological Center https://www.emsc-csem.org/ and its app for mobile phones Lastquake

Students can also visit the Natural History Museum of Crete and its Seismic Table https://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/en

Create

Based on their previous discussion, students create their own projects. They can be

-presentations of scientific facts about earthquakes

-infographics based on recorder data

-safety posters

-promotional videos

ICT tools that can be used based on students ages and preferences:

-Prezi (https://prezi.com/) for interactive presentations

-Glogster (http://edu.glogster.com/) for interactive posters

Flipsnack (https://www.flipsnack.com/) for interactive booklets

Canva (https://www.canva.com/) and Pictochart (https://piktochart.com/) for infographics

Pixton (https://www.pixton.com/) for comics

Magisto (https://www.magisto.com/) and Animoto (https://animoto.com/) for films

Share

Students share their created projects with the wider school community.

Students can also form a safety awareness network within the school and continue working on their projects and disseminating information through out the school year.

All the projects can be uploaded on the official school website.

Students can also create their own webspace with Weebly (https://www.weebly.com/) and upload their material there.

Finally a physical space - The Earthquake Corner - can be created in the school and point to the resources created. In addition to printed material QR-Codes could be used for this purpose (e.g. generated by QRStuff https://www.qrstuff.com/)