Quake side effects
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=255
A lesson plan for grades 6–7 Science
In this Science Update, students explore global changes caused by tsunamis in southeast Asia. Benjamin Fong Chao of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center presents evidence that suggests the massive earthquake off the coast of Indonesia redistributed some of the earth’s mass, making it less round. Science NetLinks provides a link to the audio file, a written transcript, and questions to engage students in discussion about how this natural disaster changed the length of the day and the position of the North Pole and how future earthquakes might cause more changes to the earth’s shape. The lesson also contains links to the Wikipedia site on the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, two pages on the topic from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Montana State University’s analysis of the physics of rotation on a human scale.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 6
- Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
- Communicate findings.
- Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
- Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
- Research.
- Gather and analyze data
- Visualize data.
- Disseminate findings to others.
- Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
- Scientific text.
- Articles.
- Events in the popular press.
- Goal 3: The learner will build an understanding of the geological cycles, forces, processes, and agents which shape the lithosphere.
- Objective 3.01: Evaluate the forces that shape the lithosphere including:
- Crustal plate movement.
- Folding and faulting.
- Deposition.
- Volcanic Activity.
- Earthquakes.
- Objective 3.02: Examine earthquake and volcano patterns.
- Objective 3.07: Assess the use of technology and information systems in monitoring lithospheric phenomenon.
- Objective 3.01: Evaluate the forces that shape the lithosphere including:
Grade 7
- Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.01: Identify and create questions and hypotheses that can be answered through scientific investigations.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.08: Use oral and written language to:
- Communicate findings.
- Defend conclusions of scientific investigations.
- Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
- Research.
- Gather and analyze data.
- Visualize data.
- Disseminate findings to others.
- Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
- Scientific text.
- Articles.
- Events in the popular press.
- Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations, use models, simulations, and appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of motion and forces.
- Objective 6.05: Describe and measure quantities that characterize moving objects and their interactions within a system:
- Time.
- Distance.
- Mass.
- Force.
- Velocity.
- Center of mass.
- Acceleration.
- Objective 6.05: Describe and measure quantities that characterize moving objects and their interactions within a system:
