This unit explores Performance Expectations MS- ESS3-2, ESS2-3 and ETS1-4 by engaging students in Project-Based learning to develop a community presentation that examines whether your community is ready to respond to a major tectonic event.
Unit Overview
Grades: 6-8
Duration: 15 class periods
Materials:
- Research Project Outline
- Student access to the Internet and other print resources
- Student notebooks
- First Nation Oral History accounts
- QFT documents
- Dendrochronology lab
- Ghost forests lab
- Materials From Catastrophic Events (STC) Kit (lesson 15)
- Student sheet 15.1
- Colored pencils or pens
- Thick foam pads
- Thin foam pads
- Desks or thick books
- Relief globe
- Tsunami Attack & Survive that Tsunami materials
- 2 sheets of tissue paper
- 3 sheets of cardstock or manila envelope material
- 3 sheets of notebook paper
- 40 toothpicks
- Masking tape
- Scissors
- Model House Template
- 1 large, shallow, plastic waterproof tub
- 20 to 30-pound (9 to 14 kg) bag of sand
- 1 piece of sheet metal
- Duct tape
