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The AMNH course The Dynamic Earth: A Course for Educators provides students with an overview of the origin and evolution of the Earth. Informed by the recently released Next Generation Science Standards, this course examines geological time scales, radiometric dating, and how scientists “read the rocks.” We will explore dramatic changes in the Earth over the last 4 billion years, including how the evolution of life on Earth has affected its atmosphere. In addition to looking at geology on a global scale, participants will take to their own backyards to explore and share their local geologic history. Course participants will bring their understanding of the dynamic Earth - along with content resources, discussion questions, and assignments - into their own teaching.

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Plate Tectonics: Earthquakes

You will learn about earthquake risk. Using a multimedia teaching case about earthquake risk in Bangladesh, you will learn how scientists define and assess the risk from geologic events. You will also learn how to implement this or similar teaching cases with your students.

Learning & Teaching with the Teaching Case4:48

Part One: Background3:26

Part Two: Data Collection3:38

Part Three: Results3:02

Part Four: Beyond Tectonics3:36

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Edmond Mathez, Ph.D.
Curator and Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ro Kinzler, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Science Education

This week we're going to continue our exploration of plate tectonics,

with a suite of resources that you can use in your classroom

with your students to deepen their understanding of the seismic risk

associated with the collision of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate.

The resources explored current science research going on today in Bangladesh.

And they feature the work of scientists from Columbia

University's[LamontâDoherty Earth Observatory, Dhaka University

in Bangladesh, and Vanderbilt University.

>> 22 degrees to the south.

>> And together, this team of scientists are working to

better understand the dynamics from the rivers, from the seismic risk,

etcetera, of the world's largest river delta.

We call this suite of resources a teaching

case, and it's broken up into four main parts.

In the first part, we're basically setting the stage.

We're learning about the geologic setting, the actions and the processes of the,

of the rivers, the seismicity that's resulting

from the collision of the two plates.

In the second section, we're actually learning

more about what the scientists are doing.

What kind of data are the collecting to

try to understand the dynamics of this region?

Then in the third section, we're learning about how

are they analyzing the data, how are they interpreting

what they're finding, and, and, and what questions are

they trying to understand the answers to with this data?

And finally, in the fourth section, very

importantly we learn about the broader implication

of the findings that they're, that they're

coming to as they conducting this research.

Teaching cases are broken up into several components.

We have text passages, written articles that provide background information

more detail about what the scientist are doing in each section.

Then we have video segments.

Those are shots in the field, on location with the scientist, and those are

great, because they really communicate in, the

action of what the scientist are doing.

In addition, we have quiz and discussion questions.

So how are we going to do this?

What we're going to do now is that you will go ahead

and read the first text passage, then you'll watch the first video.

You'll respond to the in-video quiz questions,

and then you'll go to the forum and

participate in a discussion in response to a

question we have related to the first section.

Then you'll go back, you'll read the second text passage, watch the

second video, answer the in-video questions,

participate in the forum discussion, etcetera.

As we work our way through all four parts.

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.

So we, we really encourage you to use this suite of resources

in your class room, with your middle and high school students.

And we think that you'll find them

really powerful ways to deepen their understandings of

earthquakes and seismicity, as well as to

better understand how earth scientists do their work.

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