Earthquakes

This lesson could be aimed at a high-ability KS3 group, or a KS4/GCSE group.

This lesson covers a wide range of information that students will need to know for the earthquakes topic. It includes:

• Earth’s layers (for example, the crust and plate margins)
• Wegener’s theory of continental drift
• Key words and definitions
• Different types of plate boundary
• How earthquakes are measured
• Effects and human responses to earthquakes
• Case studies from an MEDC and an LEDC
• Human solutions to earthquakes

There is a section at the bottom where you could add in your own exam style question (depending on your exam board) to the end of the lesson.

There is also a quiz at the bottom which you could set for homework or as an exit ticket consolidation activity.

(This lesson includes material from BBC Bitesize and Google Images)