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EduQuakes: Shaking Up the Lesson Plan

by Adriana Raudzens Bailey with Anne Sheehan

 

Teaching Natural Hazards Science with the University of Colorado’s Science Explorers Program

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Craig Middle School seventh-grader Victoria Phelan looks at a bottle of oil, water, and food coloring meant to simulate tsunami waves at a Science Explorers workshop.

▲Figure 1. Craig Middle School seventh-grader Victoria Phelan looks at a bottle of oil, water, and food coloring meant to simulate tsunami waves at a Science Explorers workshop. (Craig Daily Press photo.)

Julesburg sixth-grade student Larry Ray Ponsetta looks at a homing device and tries to locate a hidden beacon, designed to replicate a skier buried under avalanche, while students from his Science Explorers team look on.

▲Figure 2. Julesburg sixth-grade student Larry Ray Ponsetta looks at a homing device and tries to locate a hidden beacon, designed to replicate a skier buried under avalanche, while students from his Science Explorers team look on. (Sterling Journal-Advocate photo.)

Heatherwood fifth-graders simulate convection with food coloring.

▲Figure 3. Heatherwood fifth-graders simulate convection with food coloring.

Heatherwood students perform a tsunami wave tank experiment.

▲Figure 4. Heatherwood students perform a tsunami wave tank experiment.


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