Catastrophic processes
Earthquakes Floods Landslides |
Local hazards
Sink holes Tsunamis Volcanoes |
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Catastrophic processes: What catastrophic natural processes affected your region in the geological past?
Use the evidence in your local region to interpret dramatic geological events |
Catastrophic natural processes | |
Catastrophic processes: If a sedimentary bed were laid down outside now – what would it be like?
A discussion of beds and catastrophic processes |
Catastrophic processes - beds |
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Earthquake in your classroom
A classroom earthquake inssssssssstensity scale |
Earthquake in your classroom | |
Earthquake prediction - when will the earthquake strike?
Modelling the build-up of stress and sudden release in the Earth that creates earthquakes |
Earthquake prediction |
Teaching videos
Teaching video (ages 7 to 11 years) |
Earthquake through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what an earthquake through the window might look like |
Earthquake through the window | Extension |
Earthquakes in art
Developing a scientific report based on evidence in historic paintings |
Earthquakes in art | |
Geobattleships
Do earthquakes and volcanoes coincide? |
Geobattleships | Teaching video |
Jelly/biscuit modelling of how earthquake waves amplify and devastate
Demonstrating how seismic shaking depends on local geology |
Modelling earthquake wave amplification | Video |
Merry waves - all year round (ELI+)
Modelling how the energy of seismic waves is transmitted |
Merry waves | |
Quake shake - will my home collapse?
When an earthquake strikes - investigate why some buildings survive and others do not |
Quake Shake | Extension Columns in Rome Teaching video Video Photos |
Shadowlands
Simulating the effect of the Earth’s core on earthquake waves |
Effect of Earth’s core on earthquake waves | |
Shaken but not stirred?
How earthquakes affect buildings | Shaken but not stirred? | Teaching video |
Slinky seismic waves demo
Using slinkies to show how earthquakes produce P-, S- and surface waves |
Slinky seismic waves |
Teaching video
Video (Catalan) |
Slip-sliding away
How does monitoring fault creep help to forecast earthquakes? |
Slip-sliding away | |
Spaghetti quakes
Why are big earthquakes so much more destructive than small ones? |
Spaghetti quakes | Teaching video
Video (Catalan) |
Surviving an earthquake
Learn the earthquake drill and increase your chances of survival |
Surviving an earthquake | Teaching video
Video |
Waves in the Earth 1 - the slinky simulation (ELI+)
Using a long spring to find out how earthquake waves travel through the Earth |
Waves through the Earth 1 | Teaching video |
Waves in the Earth 2 - Human molecules (ELI+)
Pupils are pushed around to demonstrate the properties of seismic waves |
Waves through the Earth 2 | Teaching video |
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Flood through the window - what would you see, how would you feel?
Pupils picture for themselves what a major flood through the window might look like |
Flood through the window | What was it like to be there - Manila 26 Sept 2009 |
Dam burst danger
Modelling the collapse of a natural dam in the mountains - and the disaster that might follow |
Dam burst danger |
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Danger - quicksands!
Why do some rocks give way when it rains hard? |
Quicksands | |
Landslide danger - and climate change
Case studies of how landslides work and the likely effects of climate change |
Landslide danger - and climate change | |
Landslide through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what a landslide through the window might look like |
Landslide through the window | Extension
Video (Norway) |
Failing slopes
Modelling how rock cliffs and slopes can collapse |
Failing slopes |
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Which natural hazards could damage the area where you live?
How safe is your home area? |
Natural hazards in your area? |
Title & Description | Activity | More Ideas and Video |
Sink hole!
Demonstrate sink hole processes in action |
Sink hole | Video (Catalan) |
Title & Description | Activity | More Ideas and Video |
Tsunami alert! Run for the hills or stay by the sea?
Why does one type of earthquake produce a tsunami, whilst another does not? |
Tsunami alert! | |
Tsunami through the window - what would you see, what would you feel?
Asking pupils to picture for themselves what a tsunami through the window might look like |
Tsunami through the window | Extension
Pupils work - Portugal Booklet |
Tsunami!
What controls the speed of a tsunami wave? |
Tsunami | Teaching video
Extension |
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Best classroom eruption?
Which type of classroom eruption best shows how volcanoes erupt? |
Best classroom eruption? | Teaching videos |
Blow up your own volcano!
Demonstrate the importance of gases in volcanic eruptions |
Blow up your own volcano! | Teaching video
Video Extension |
Bubble-mania
The bubbling clues to magma viscosity and eruptions |
Bubble-mania | |
Eruption through the window
How could an eruption transform your view?- lava, ash, lahar or something worse |
Eruption through the window | Video (Kalapana, Hawaii) |
Geobattleships
Do earthquakes and volcanoes coincide? |
Geobattleships | Teaching video |
Krakatau - The balloon goes up at Krakatau
Using a tank and balloon to simulate the huge tsunamis caused by the eruption of Krakatau | Krakatau - tsunamis | |
Party time for volcanoes! (ELI+)
How much force does it take to set off a party popper “volcano”? |
Party time for volcanoes |
Teaching video
Extension |
Take a ‘Chance’ on the volcano erupting (ELI+)
How hazardous is the volcano? |
Take a ‘Chance’ on the volcano erupting |
Teaching video
Extension |
When will it blow? - predicting eruptions
How a simple tiltmeter can demonstrate the bulging of a volcano before eruption |
When will it blow? - predicting eruptions |
Teaching video
Video Extension |