Earth and Environmental Science · Week 25 · Natural Hazards and Resilience
Living on a Fault
Explaining how the San Andreas Fault shapes where people live and naming the feelings that natural hazards bring up.
- Students will
- Students construct an explanation of how the San Andreas Fault shapes where people live and name the feelings natural hazards bring up.
- SEL skill
- Name feelings that natural hazards bring up and pick one action that helps you feel prepared
- What it looks like
- Students recognize fear and calm as normal responses to hazards and name one feeling they notice.
- Content focus
- Living on a fault
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and noticing how they influence what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-ESS3-1: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP6 Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Crosscutting concept: CCC2 Cause and effect
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: WHST.11-12.2 Write informative and explanatory texts, including scientific procedures and processes.
- Traditional course: Earth and Environmental Science
Fits these textbook chapters
- Prentice Hall Earth Science, Chapter 8: Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
- Prentice Hall Earth Science, Chapter 9: Plate Tectonics
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More self-awareness activities for Earth and Environmental Science
- Scientist of This Place Self-awarenessStudents map the land, water, and people that shape their lives and name the kind of environmental scientist they want to become.
- Where Our Water Comes From Self-awarenessTracing valley water from the Colorado River and the aquifer to the tap and reflecting on what we take for granted.
- Reading Climate Clues Self-awarenessAnalyzing ice core and tree ring evidence of past climates and noticing the feelings that arise when data points to change.
- Semester Reflection: Footprint and Handprint Self-awarenessStudents reflect on how their thinking about the environment changed and set a spring goal for a positive handprint.
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