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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can we do to reduce the impacts of an earthquake?
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can we do to reduce the impacts of an earthquake?
ANCHOR PHENOMENON: A 10-STORY WOOD BUILDING DESIGNED ON A SHAKE TABLE DOESN'T FALL.
10 LESSONS | SEE BELOW LESSONS FOR FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTION ⬇️
Lesson 7
How can we design something to make someone feel safer about earthquakes?
THE GREAT CA SHAKEOUT PROJECT DESCRIPTION
THE GREAT CA SHAKEOUT PROJECT DESCRIPTION
“Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them are so small that they are not felt.” - Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Every year, CA schools, businesses and organizations come together to join the world’s largest earthquake drill called The Great CA Shakeout. This project was created to help young people understand why it’s important to prepare for and reduce the impacts from an earthquake. Students learn about earthquakes through sharing their own experiences, listening to family stories, reading first person accounts from CA history and analyzing earthquake map data. Students are engineers as they work together to solve the problem of earthquakes.
Click the green buttons below to access the aligned standards in the Scope and Sequence document, along with final product resources and student work samples from the project.
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