This suite of resources a really powerful way for
you to deepen your own and your students' understanding of
seismicity and seismic risk that can occur at a
collision boundary, such as the one that's affecting Bangla, Bangladesh.
In addition though, because of the way
that resources are created, it's an excellent
tool to use to help your students
deepen their understanding of the practices of science.
If you remember, in the beginning, we talked about the framework
for K-12 science education that was
articulated by the National Academy of Sciences.
And they articulated three different dimensions: the practices of
science, what are scientists actually doing, then the cross
cutting concepts and then the disciplinary core ideas, the
actual content that they're focusing on and thinking about.
In this case, of course the disciplinary core ideas
is around earthquakes and seismicity, plate tectonics, collision boundaries.
it's also about
rivers and their dynamics.
They'll pu, there's many, many cross-cutting concepts
that you can explore with these resources.
But in particular, because of the way the resources
are created with the video showing the scientists in action,
it's a great way for your students to be exposed
to and deepen their understanding of the practices of science.
So, for example, they will see the scientists thinking about their
investigation, what kind of data do they need to obtain in order
to better understand the seismic risk.
So, for example, in this case, they are looking at geologic structures at the
surface, and, and characterizing those structures in
order to infer what's going on below.
That's a very important aspect of how earth scientists work.
Then they'll be interpreting, as I said, interpreting that geologic structure data.
And they'll be constructing explanations for the earthquake history of the region.
And then thinking about what is
that, what this explanation mean in terms of how they would argue for whether or
not another earthquake is going to happen and
what the magnitude of that earthquake might be.
And then really importantly, they thinking
about how they going to communicate this information
to all the different parties, all different
people who need to know about it.
Because it's such a great risk to
this very large population that lives in Bangladesh.