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- 8th
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Students describe the type of faults, and how movement along these faults changes the Earth's surface (crustal deformation) and cescribe the types of faults, and how movement along these faults changes the Earth's surface. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students conduct an experiment to demonstrate the folding and rippling of rock to form a mountain. They identify mountain chains on a map, participate in the demonstrations, and define folding fault block, igneous eruptions, igneous domes, and erosion. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast the movements on the San Andreas fault. They calculate the amount of movement of other plates as well. They describe why the San Andreas fault has a high occurance of earthquakes. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students experiment with string to visualize how earthquakes are created. Using various lengths of string, students determine which earthquakes lasted the longest and hypothesize why. Students look at a fault map and determine which may be capable of the longest earthquakes. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students discover the faults throughout the Earth. They describe the different types of faults and how they are related to earthquakes. They build models of the faults. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students are introduced to the concept of faults and what occurs during an earthquake. In groups, they discover the relationship between faults and earthquakes. Using a map, they identify locations of ancient fault activity that has caused earthquakes in the past in Texas. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students use a map to identify the location of the Balcones Fault Zone. Using photographs, they discover the geographic features on each side of the fault and give a describtion of each. Using the internet, they identify other faults found near the Balcones fault and label them on a topographical map. In groups, they compare and contrast where they live to the Balcones fault zone. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students describe how stress builds up in the Earth's crust by the movement of tectonic plates. In groups, they relate the three types of stresses to the types of plate movements and explain how the stress causes faults to form. They create their own models to demonstrate the plate movements. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students use CAD maps to explore active faults in Idaho. Through observation of maps, they explore the layers of the Quaternary and Holocene faults. Individually, or in groups, they identify characteristics of faults such as scarps, broken grounds and stratigraphic offsets. Students identify the geologic provinces with given characteristics. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify that the crust of the earth is constantly moving and that with the exception of faults accompanied by earthquakes, this rate of movement is far too slow to notice. Then they print a copy of cross-section map A and cross-section map B from the lesson on Rocks, Rails, and Trails. Students also explore the earthquake section of the Digital Atlas. Full Review »
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