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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.

This Guide for Teachers contains 14 lesson plans related to earthquakes. These are the following: 1. What is the relation between tectonic plates and earthquakes? (Primary school), 2. Εύρεση επίκεντρου με τη χρήση του SeisGram2K (in Greek) (High school), 3. Σεισμικά κύματα (in Greek) (High school), 4. Εύρεση επίκεντρου του σεισμού (in Greek) (High school), 5. Measuring an earthquake (High school), 6. Pangea Puzzle (Primary school), 7. Proper behavior in an earthquake situation (Primary school), 8.