The main purpose of this guide is to step by step direct teachers in organizing a training route which would ultimately lead to the active students’ participation in seismograph handling process, recording and studying seismograms, calculating seismic parameters and exchanging results and experience within their cooperation with other student groups participating in the project.
Seismology is fundamental for understanding our dynamic planet, as it plays a vital role in monitoring both human-made and natural seismogenic events. Appreciating and understanding seismology's scientific and societal relevance requires knowledge of geology and physics, often coupled with elements of civil engineering, environmental sciences, official state policy, geography and geo-engineering as well as other scientific disciplines. Seismology is thus an engaging and quantitative science exhibiting a number of inherent links to wider areas of science but also to society providing the opportunity for applying multi-field scientific hands on experimental as well as theoretical activities.
Seismology in school education can promote scientific literacy at all levels but its benefits go far wider than simply providing scientific knowledge about this everyday natural phenomenon. It provides the basis for informed action to protect lives and property on local, regional, and national levels. As such, the SSE project and proposed approach will not only contribute to providing high-level educational material to teachers and their students but will also highlight aspects of civil protection, citizenship, civil responsibility and cooperation.
Educational Object File