Students will start with 5 quick questions from their previous lessons on North America. Then they will describe the location of San Francisco in the United States of America, they will then recap conservative plate boundaries and how they cause earthquakes. Students will then be tested quickly on their ability to describe the formation of an earthquake. Students then learn how we measure earthquakes with the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale. Finally students will read through the information sheet about the quake and will identify the effects of the quake into social, economic and environmental effects. Then finish of their information by writing a newspaper article to summarise their learning.
Task 1: Knowledge Retention
Task 2: Identify location of San Francisco
Task 3: Recap how earthquakes form
Task 4: Identify the effects of the quake
Task 4: Write a newspaper article about the quake.
This lesson contains a full powerpoint, worksheet and newspaper template
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