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Why Are Earthquakes so Hard to Predict? Instructional VideoWhy Are Earthquakes so Hard to Predict? Instructional Video
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Why Are Earthquakes so Hard to Predict?

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Cell phones to crowdsource vibrations to warn of incoming earthquakes? Detectors to register high levels of radon-thoron isotopes? After detailing the factors that make earthquakes so difficult to predict, the narrator of a fascinating video examines some of the technology being developed to predict these earth-shaking events.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

earthquakes, making predictions, geology, plate tectonics, seismic waves, seismographs, seismology, the earth's mantle, fault lines, faults, the san andreas fault, earth's inner core, the earth's crust, magma

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Have groups explore the links found in the resource
  • Ask other groups to explore the validity of such prediction techniques as the "Missing Cats and Dogs" premise
  • Another group might research the nearest fault lines or the schools earthquake preparedness policy

Classroom Considerations

  • The resource can be easily assigned for home viewing with class members returning for a full-class discussion of the video and the provided links

Pros

  • The animation enables viewers to look below the Earth's surface to see how the various factors operate

Cons

  • None

Common Core

SL.9-10.3 SL.11-12.3

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