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Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects.
Janice Pratt VanCleave. Spectacular Science Projects. New York, N.Y.: John Wiley, 1993.
Recommended grade level:
4-6.
Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes, a book written for students, contains 20 simple activities for exploring concepts related to earthquakes--such as compression forces, faults, tectonic plates, convection currents, seismic waves, and the Richter scale. For each activity, students first complete a "cookbook" experiment, such as exploring compression forces by pushing hand towels together to create "folds," using glass jars filled with water at different temperatures to investigate convection currents, or making a model of a seismograph with a cardboard box. Students then follow suggestions for varying these experiments and for designing their own related experiments on the basis of the models in the book. Some of the related experiments could be developed into science fair projects.
Most of the activities in Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes can be done by students working with little supervision. Each activity includes a materials list, step-by-step procedures, an explanation of results, and guidelines for further experimentation and research. A glossary of terms is also included.
Price:
$10.95 (ISBN 0-471-57107-5).
Publisher/supplier:
Wiley.
Materials:
Available locally.
Topic Index listings linked to this entry
Use these listings to find related entries.
Compression, Physical Sciences: Structures, ~ The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure: Activities for the Elementary Classroom, ~ Structures,
Convection currents, Earth Sciences: Convection: A Current Event, ~ Earth Processes, ~ Geothermal Energy, Multi & Applied Sciences: SciencePlus Technology and Society: Level Green, ~ Everyday Science: Real-Life Activities.
Earthquakes, Earth Sciences: Concepts and Challenges in Earth Science, ~ Exploring Earth Science, ~ Glencoe Earth Science, ~ Earth Processes, ~ Earthquake!, ~ Earthquakes, ~ Project Earth Science: Geology, ~ Blue Planet, ~ Earthquakes: A Teacher's Package for K-6, ~ Earth Science Investigations, Measuring Earthquakes, ~ On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for Grades 1-8, ~ Science Experiments: Earth Science, Multi & Applied Sciences: Integrated Science: Book Two, ~ Investigating Patterns of Change, ~ Science Interactions: Course 1, ~ Science Interactions: Course 2, ~ Scientific Theories, ~ Super Science Activities: Favorite Lessons from Master Teachers.
Faults, Earth Sciences: Earth Processes, ~ Earthquake!, ~ Earthquakes: A Teacher's Package for K-6,
Models, Physical Sciences: Glencoe Physical Science, ~ Matter: Building Block of the Universe, ~ Chemical Interactions, ~ Experimenting with Model Rockets, ~ Inventor's Lab, ~ Newton's Toy Box, ~ Experiments with Balloons, ~ Experiments with Motion, ~ LEGO Technic I Activity Center, ~ Machines, ~ Science Experiments: Chemistry and Physics, ~ Simple and Motorized Machines Activity Pack, ~ Soap Films and Bubbles, ~ Structures, Life Sciences: Glencoe Life Science, ~ Heredity: The Code of Life, ~ DNA--From Genes to Proteins, ~ Food, Energy, and Growth, ~ From Genes to Jeans: An Activity-Based Unit on Genetic Engineering and Agriculture, ~ The Human Body: How Can I Maintain and Care for Myself?, ~ An Introduction to Biotechnology: Book 2, ~ Life Changes through Time, ~ You and Your Body, ~ Zebra Mussel Mania, ~ The Molecular Model of DNA and Its Replication Kit, ~ Order and Diversity in the Living World: Teaching Taxonomy and Systematics in Schools, Environmental Sciences: Plastics in Our Lives, ~ Water: Can We Keep It Fit for Life?, ~ Environmental Issues: Intermediate, ~ Environmental Resource Guide: Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention, ~ Global Awareness for Students (GAS): Studies in Climate, ~ H2O Below: An Activity Guide for Groundwater Study, ~ STV: Water, Earth Sciences: Project STAR: The Universe in Your Hands, ~ Asteroid!, ~ Earth, Moon, and Stars, ~ Earth Processes, ~ Earthquake!, ~ Earthquakes, ~ The Moons of Jupiter, ~ Project Earth Science: Geology, ~ River Cutters, ~ Stories in Stone, ~ The Universe: Exploring Stars, Constellations, and Galaxies, ~ Earthquakes: A Teacher's Package for K-6, ~ Earth Science Investigations, ~ Earthy Things, ~ Hands-On Geology: K-12 Activities and Resources, On the Rocks: Earth Science Activities for Grades 1-8, ~ Project SPICA: A Teacher Resource to Enhance Astronomy Education, ~ A Sedimentary Geologists' Guide to Helping K-12 Earth Science Teachers: Hints, Ideas, Activities and Resources, Multi & Applied Sciences: Models and Designs, ~ Prime Science: Level C, ~ Energy Transformations: Fourth Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit, ~ Hot Water and Warm Homes from Sunlight, ~ How Telecommunication Works: How People Use Energy to Communicate, ~ If Shipwrecks Could Talk, ~ JASON IV Curriculum: Baja California Sur, ~ Life: Here? There? Elsewhere? The Search for Life on Venus and Mars, ~ Packaging, ~ A Sunken Ship, ~ The Teaching Tank Discovery Book, ~ The Teaching Tank Discovery Book, ~ Technology Science Mathematics Connection Activities, ~ Transformations: Science, Technology and Society.
Richter scale, Earth Sciences: Measuring Earthquakes.
Seismic waves, Physical Sciences: The Fusion Series: Personal Science Laboratory (PSL) Explorer Investigations for Grades 6-9, Earth Sciences: Exploring Planet Earth,
Seismograph, Physical Sciences: The Fusion Series: Personal Science Laboratory (PSL) Explorer Investigations for Grades 6-9, Earth Sciences: Earth Processes, Measuring Earthquakes, Multi & Applied Sciences: Science Interactions: Course 2, ~ Super Science Activities: Favorite Lessons from Master Teachers.
Tectonic plate, Earth Sciences: Earthquakes, ~ The Evolution of a Planetary System, ~ Project Earth Science: Geology, Multi & Applied Sciences: SciencePlus Technology and Society: Level Green.
