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

• 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