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Earthquake Jenga

Earthquake Jenga. Karla Hodgson & Mary Giles. Rules. Setup:

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Earthquake Jenga

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  1. Earthquake Jenga Karla Hodgson & Mary Giles

  2. Rules Setup: • One player builds the tower on a flat, sturdy surface by using the loading tray as shown below. Place three blocks in each layer, at right angles to the previous layer. When you finish you'll have a solid, 18-story tower that can more than double during play!

  3. Rules Play: • The player who built the tower goes first. Play then continues to the left.2. On your turn, carefully remove a block from anywhere BELOW the highest completed story Then stack it on top of the tower, at right angles to the blocks just below it.

  4. Rules Removing and Stacking Blocks: • Remove and stack one block per turn. To remove a block, use one hand at a time. You can switch hands whenever you wish. • As play proceeds and the weight of the tower shifts, some blocks become looser than others and are easier to remove. You can touch other blocks to find a loose one - but if you move a block out of place, you must fix it (using one hand only) before touching another block. • While stacking, always complete one 3 - block story before starting a higher one. • Your turn ends 10 seconds after you stack your block-or as soon as the player to your left touches a block.

  5. Rules • Once you pull a block successfully, you must answer the question on your block. • If you answer the question successfully, you may keep your block. • If you answer the question wrong, you must place the block back on top. • If you pull a block with nothing written on it, you get a free turn! • If you pull out a block with one word on it, you must give the definition for the term. • The player with the most blocks, when the tower falls over, wins!

  6. Rules Each block is written in red, purple, blue and green and is matched in the same color on the answer key. Be sure to check the answer key for the correct answer.

  7. EARTHQUAKE! Instead of yelling “JENGA” when the tower falls over, you have to yell “EARTHQUAKE”

  8. EARTHQUAKE TERMSANSWER KEY: • 1) Amplitude The amplitude is the size of the wiggles on an earthquake recording. • 2) Displacement is the difference between the initial position of a reference point and any later position. • 3) Earthquake is a term used to describe both sudden slip on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy. • 4) Epicenter is the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter (or focus), point in the crust where a seismic rupture begins. • 5)Fault is a fracture along which the blocks of crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture. • 6) Foreshocks smaller earthquakes that precede the largest earthquake in a series, which is termed the main shock. Not all main shocks have foreshocks. • 7) Ground motion is the movement of the earth's surface from earthquakes or explosions. • 8) Intensity is a number describing the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface. • 9) Magnitude is a number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake • 10)Mainshock is the largest earthquake in a sequence • 11)P wave is a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction. • 12) Richter scale is a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes • 13) S wave is a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving. • 14) Tectonic plates are the large, thin, rigid plates that move relative to one another on the outer surface of the Earth. • 15) Wavelength is the distance between successive points of equal amplitude and phase on a wave

  9. Fact or Fiction? 16) We can always tell where an earthquake has occurred because we can see the ground on the surface that has moved. FICTION 17) If an earthquake is a magnitude 7 event, it has that intensity, or strength. FICTION 18) The most shaking in earthquakes occurs next to the epicenter FICTION 19) There are many thousands of earthquakes every year on Earth. FACT 20) Earthquakes are easily predicted. FICTION 21) Some seismic shock waves travel faster than the speed of sound. FACT 22) Several earthquakes have killed more than 100,000 people at one time. FACT 23) Plate motions cause earthquakes FACT 24) Tsunamis are often secondary effects of large earthquakes FACT 25) Following large earthquakes, fires often break out. FACT 26) Earthquakes with a Richter magnitude less than eight are usually not felt by humans FICTION 27) No reliable method of short-range earthquake prediction has yet been devised. FICTION 28) Most earthquakes occur along faults associated with plate boundaries FACT 29) P waves arrive at a recording station after S waves FICTION 30) Earth's inner core is a solid metallic sphere FACT

  10. General Curriculum outcomes 1) Time continuity and change Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the past and how it affects the present and the future How do Earthquakes affect humans and the environment 2) People place and the environment Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the interactions among people, places and the environment Interactions between Earthquakes, people and places

  11. Key-stage curriculum outcomes People place and the environment Use geographic tools, technologies , and representations to interpret, pose, and answer questions about natural and human systems Use location, distance, scale, direction, density, shape, and size to describe and explain the location and distribution parterres of physical phenomena Ask complex geographic questions; acquire, organize, and analyze geographic information; and answer geographic questions. Time, Continuity, and change Identify and analyze trends that may shape the future Identify and use concepts associated with time, continuity and change

  12. Specific Curriculum Outcomes • Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of earthquakes and their common terms. • Skills used will be: problem solving, communicating, and generating an overall more accurate understanding of earthquakes. • Demonstrate a willingness to participate and work well with peers

  13. Processes Communication Employ active listening techniques use various forms of group and interpersonal communication, such as debating, negotiation, establishing consensus, clarifying and mediating conflict Inquiry Students should have a number of additional questions about earthquakes. Students will become more inquisitive about the natural disasters and look forward to the upcoming lessons. Participation Function in a Varity of groupings, using collaborative and cooperative skills and strategies. Engage in a variety of learning activities that include collaboration

  14. Rational The Earthquake Jenga game is to be played at the end of the natural disasters unit, more specifically the earthquake section. The game is a great way to review the earthquake terms and concepts before a quiz or test. The students will have fun and work together while learning. This game will reach a variety of learning styles including visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners. The game is designed to meet the GCO’s, KSCO’s and SCOS’s from the grade 7 geography curriculum.

  15. EARTHQUAKES

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