Earthquakes

This webquest is based on Earthquakes. With the following task you will be able to know what are earthquakes, that they constitute one of the worst natural catastrophes and much more things. 

In this webquest you are going to find a sort of questions where you are going to be able to understand and discover many things related to earthquakes. It is thought for 5th or 6th grade students. 

But, this time the teacher won't give you the answers, you will have to find it by yourselves. So, come on! Let's start!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSgB1IWr6O4]

Authors: Àngela Arbonés and Cristina Torres

Let's start!

1. Make groups of 3

2. Choose a name for your group

3. Open a word document and save it as “Earthquake + Group name”

4. Open the file and write the name of your group and the names of the components of the group

5. Now you can start to answer the questions.

6. Write all the questions and the answers below it

7. When you finish it, you must do a creative cover either in word or handmade. Write your names and your group names, your grade and the date of delivering.

Good luck!

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 

1. What is an earthquake?

2. Explain the hypocentre and epicentre of a earthquake.

Resources: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/RockShakeyGround.pdf

3. Where do earthquakes occur?

4. Where is the actual point where rocks actually move?

5. How it is called to the vibrations of the earthquake?

Resource: http://geography.parkfieldprimary.com/hazards/earthquakes

6. Name two ways of measuring earthquakes

7. How are tsunamis created?

Resource: http://www.dkfindout.com/us/earth/earthquakes/

8. How many people die (approximately) in earthquakes each year?

9. Which countries are more affected by earthquakes?

10. How are the people who study earthquakes called?

11. What is the “Ring of Fire?

Resource: http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-earthquakes/

12. Can earthquakes be predicted?

13. Describe what the Richter scale is

14. Write some tips you can use during an earthquake

Resource: http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-earthquake.htm

Evaluation:

You will have to hand in the word document with the questions answered following all the instructions explained in the task. Moreover, it will be taken in account if the answers are not just copied; the answers have to be explained by yourselves in your own words.

Elements as creativity and cleanness will be very important and effort will be taken in account. So, basically your work will be evaluated by the task presented to the teacher. 

Thanks to this webquest you have studied the earthquakes and work on them looking for different information in the resources given.

Make sure you don't have any doubts, in this case ask your teacher and she will give you the tools necessary.

Authors notes: we have enjoyed doing this webquest and we have though of that topic because it is not that common in that ages but the kids are really interested about nature events