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This model-making kit helps students learn about earthquakes, their causes, and their effects. Students make a subsurface model and a model of a city using the colorful parts. They use the subsurface model to look at the features of an earthquake: epicenter, focus (hypocenter), and the P and S seismic waves. They employ the city model to look at the destructive effects of the surface L and R waves. Includes enough materials for students to assemble up to 5 paper models working cooperatively.

Models are powerful tools for teaching science because they provide useful simplifications of structures and processes, helping to make the unseen seen and the complex simple. Earthquakes release huge amounts of energy and cause tremendous amounts of destruction in many parts of the world. Your students will use this dynamic model-making kit to learn about earthquakes, their causes, and their effects. First, they make a subsurface model and a model of a city using the colorful parts. Then they use the subsurface model to look at the features of an earthquake: epicenter, focus (hypocenter), and the P and S seismic waves. Finally, students employ the model of a city to look at the destructive effects of the surface L and R waves.

This model-making kit includes enough materials for students to assemble up to 5 paper models working cooperatively. The included comprehensive teacher resource guide provides illustrated readings, activities, key vocabulary, and an assessment, along with teaching opportunities for students to Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate their understanding of the concepts presented.