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Year 9 Earthquakes and earthquake resistant design (2 lesson sequence)
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Year 9 Earthquakes and earthquake resistant design (2 lesson sequence)

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Year 9 Earthquakes and earthquake resistant design Full 2 lesson sequence resources provided Lesson 1: exploring earthquakes and tectonic waves Lesson 2: designing earthquake resistant buildings Covers: Earthquake events/ seismic waves /earthquake resistant design Lesson powerpoint and instructions Lesson 1 in sequence Slide 1: differentiated stater questions Slide 2: review of starter questions Slide 3: introduction to learning goals and success criteria Slide 4: introduction to main lesson activity - student focused inquiry based. Case study of Haiti earthquake Slide 5: differentiated case study inquiry question provided. Student use article (word document provided) to answer case study questions Slides 6-23: review of earthquakes and waves. Slide 24: Review lesson goals and success criteria at end of lesson 1 Lesson 2 in sequence Slide 1: differentiated stater questions Slide 2-4: review of starter questions Slide 5: recap of learning goals and success criteria Slide 6-8 engagement examples Japan and USA testing facilities (article and embedded (public) video links of earthquake design testing. Slide 9: Main activity task: Draw and annotate a building design with the earthquake improvements selected (word document with research included) Slide 10: Review lesson goals and success criteria at end of lesson 2 Word documents Haiti case study article Earthquake design research