Physics of the Universe · Week 22 · Nuclear Processes and Earth's History
The San Andreas Fault
Modeling how plate motion builds and releases stress along the fault and practicing safe ways to release built up stress.
- Students will
- Students model how plate motion builds stress along a locked fault and releases it in an earthquake, explain how many repeated slips build landforms such as offset streams and the San Jacinto Mountains, and compare it to safe ways to release stress.
- SEL skill
- Name safe ways to release built up stress before it becomes a sudden slip
- What it looks like
- Students practice coping with stress by naming safe, healthy ways to release built up pressure.
- Content focus
- The San Andreas Fault
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
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Standards
- HS-ESS2-1: High School Earth and Space Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle III: Natural systems change in ways people benefit from and can influence
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 5.3: Seismic Waves
- Physics Techbook, Concept 5.4: Earthquakes and Their Impacts
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 2: Momentum and Collisions
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More self-management activities for Physics of the Universe
- Force and Motion Self-managementAnalyzing motion data to show that net force causes acceleration and identifying the forces that move students toward their goals.
- Balanced and Unbalanced Self-managementModeling balanced and unbalanced forces and noticing when the forces in life feel balanced or out of control.
- Magnets and Motors Self-managementInvestigating how electric current creates magnetic fields and channeling curiosity into persistence when a motor will not spin.
- Heat Engines and Efficiency Self-managementInvestigating heat flow and efficiency and finding where students lose energy to stress and how to recover it.
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